Performance Difference After Partitioning Drive

[manuleka 0]

I am running Windows 7 Professional on a single 640GB 7200rpm Hard drive. It is partitioned into 4x~100GB, 1x60GB and two 40GBall the 100GB, and 1x40GB are in NTFS, the rest 60GB+40GB are in ext4Now if I repartition the 100GB partitions into say 50GB would there be any increase in read/write performances?

[yordan 10]

The main increase will arrive if you have to re-format your new partitions.The main performance increase will come from your disk usage organization. For instance, let's say you put all your movies on the same partition, the data will not be scattered due to the presence of small files preventing from finding large free space. Moreover, if you frequently remove all the movies you don't need, you will be able to format again a given partition, which will increase the read/write on the freshly formatted partition.Same things from the defrag point of view. While you defrag your small text files partition, the process will not have to handle the large files from the other partition.

[manuleka 0]

thanks yordan, i think i need to re-organize where my files are... because at the moment I have images/videos spanned throught the drives

[yordan 10]

This reorganizing job is the most urgent job to be done. The worst situation for a disk actuator/head is to have to simultaneously handle big files (which means sequential access) and small files (which means random access).And when the reorganization will be finished, this will ease the backup job : frequently backup smal text and picture files from one partition, and almost never backup the huge files from the other partition.Same thing from the defrag, no defrag needed on the big files because written once on their disk, frequent fast defrag for the short files partition.

[manuleka 0]

aah thanks yordan... the drive is about 3 years old now

[yordan 10]

Take care. After three years, an elecro-mechanical device starts being old. So, be careful with your text and photo files, often backup them on a removable media or on another computer.

[manuleka 0]

Take care. After three years, an elecro-mechanical device starts being old. So, be careful with your text and photo files, often backup them on a removable media or on another computer.

yip thinking of grabbing a portable drive...