Which is better on a 30G HD: 2 or 15 partitions?

[oldspice 0]

I am a gamer and want to know if hard drive access will be better if i split my 30G hd into, say:

 

5- 6G partitions

 

or

 

15- 2G partitions

 

or

 

1- 2G for windows

1- 500M for swap

1- 27.5G for apps and games

 

I think you see where i am going..anybody done any testiong in this regard.

thanks!

[Four and Twenty 0]

I have run my hard drives with many partitions and no partitions and i have never noticed a performance increase or decrease when changing between partitioned and nonpartitioned drives. Get RAID if you want to boost your performance. I am amazed at how fast my games load on this old 500 Mhz Dell.

 

 

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My System

Dell Demension XPS T500

Triple Boot

Windows 2000 Pro 2195

Windows Whistler Pro 2296

Windows Millennium Final Retail

PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)

512 Megs Ram

Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)

Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)

3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card

Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler

2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)

1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)

40X LG CD Rom Drive

100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive

MS Explorer Mouse

MS Natural Keyboard Pro

And not a single peice of software that I actually own

[INFERNO2000 0]

interesting post

 

I'll wnat to watch this one

 

 

I have 2 drives:

 

Drive 1: 46GB Maxtor UDMA 100

 

C through L(exluding D)

 

Drive 2: 15GB IBM UDMA 100

D, M through P

 

varying sizes...the less than 1GB leftoever partitions make good swap space(P), or CD-backup(L)