Speed of processor and Hard disk partitions

[damindra 0]

One of the senior software engineers has said "if the processor is below 400Mhz, have one partition on the hard disk, if above 400Mhz have 2 partitions", does this matter at all??? Can anyone shed light on the matter as to why? Surely the speed of the processor has nothing to do with the size of the processor!

 

Any ideas on why please tell, i personally think its absolute, {excuse my language} CRAP!

[kgeissler 0]

I dont buy it. I have a 400 and have 4 partions on 1 HD.

 

I never heard anything like that before.

[CUViper 0]

I have a 700 with only 1 partition on each drive....

 

that really sounds like a load of bs to me.....

[damindra 0]

As i thought, total rubbish!! I've never heard of anything like this before either!! This SSE has a Phd in Networks as well and said he didn't study the TCP/IP networks, so doesn't know how to correct TCP/IP problems, there's something wrong here me thinks!

 

Cheers for the comments, i can sleep now with the fact that CPU and disk partitions have nothing to do with each other!!

[Alex_w 0]

I may be wrong but doesnt windows use memory as chache for each hard drive partition so therefore the more partitions you have the more memory will be used, however i cant see that having any real relavance to processor speed.

[DosFreak 2]

That's BS. I've been using multiple partitions since the 486's. No problems at all. That guys has a Phd in BS.

[damindra 0]

I definitely agree with the last point, the only minor connection with processor and hard disk i can fathom is if there are a number of 'physical' disks, and then the processor would be challenged slightly, but nothing to do with partitioning!!

[ComputerMan 0]

I always used 4 primary partitions since I had the Pentium 133, now I have a PII333MHz... bullcrap anyone ?