[Chriscool]

Actually, you can handle one and only one volume relying on several disks, or several volumes on one and only one disk.

To sum it up, could we agree that partitions impact organisation and disks impact performance, and anything else would be just potential micro-optimisations hardly worthing any presumption ?

I have two partitions for OS and Data for organisation (easier backup/restoration). My data are on a distinct drive to provide better performance, but this has nothing to do with partitionning, as i could handle it by simply make a directory points to this second drive. I would agree that size of partitions can impact memory and speed on older FS, but isn't it become completely irrelevant on any modern FS ?

[rfarris]

nick9000, on Aug 24 2004, 06:46 PM, said:

HddO (System) (total 200GB)
30GB Windows XP (NTFS) (including paging file, I have 1GB of RAM, I rarely use Photoshop (and at a very amateur level), so the scratch file is here also)
170GB (various Linux partitions/data) for learning how to use Linux

Hdd1 (Data) (total 250GB)
50GB (NTFS) "working" data partition (first partition)
200GB (NTFS) "storage" partition (for "read only" mainly media files)

Nick,

The only recommendation I have for you would be to add a fixed-size pagefile to the first partition on your second, non-OS drive. You may as well leave the pagefile you already have on your OS-drive; it will only be used if Windows panics and needs to create a dump file.

As you have plenty of disk space I'd make the 2nd-disk pagefile equal in size to the amount of ram you have.

-- Rick

[Will Rickards WT]

How would one test this?

[rfarris]

By running one of those programs that eat all available memory and watching to see what happens when virtual memory is all consumed.

[LidlessEye]

In addition, if the file is small enough, it will be located IN the MFT, so would only require one read.

[Will Rickards WT]

I actually meant how would one test the partitioning for speed hypothesis.
Some say no noticeable difference. Some say otherwise.
How do you test it?

For SR's benchmark, they did an access capture that recorded all the activity, correct?
Wouldn't they have to do the same thing with the partitioned scenario?
But with two different captures, you can't compare them exactly.

So I'm wondering how you would test this?
Most of the time you run benchmarks on an empty disk, correct?