How to Speed up your Hard Disk :-) (Zak's Partition Theory)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

so all in all if i get another 500gb hdd, make the first partition 100gb and install OS and some games in their? that will make it faster then a raptor?

[Moby-Dick]

Having correctly aligned partitions is also important , but thats more of a SAN/Virtual Disk thing

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Having correctly aligned partitions is also important , but thats more of a SAN/Virtual Disk thing

hehe what do you mean?

[Moby-Dick]

allighing the partition blocks with a RAID stripe essentially.

Disk performance may be slower than expected when you use multiple disks in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows 2000

[Zak33]

so all in all if i get another 500gb hdd, make the first partition 100gb and install OS and some games in their? that will make it faster then a raptor?

if you forget RAID and just use the drive partition, and MAKE SURE ITS THE FIRST PARTITION YOU MAKE, it will be similar to a Raptor for the first stuf (OS install etc) and as it becomes more "full" it'll not slow down in the same way a Raptor does as yu'll never get anywhere near the inner parts of the platter. Those willbe the other 400 gig of drive for your data/films/music/photo's etc

Well...that's my experience so far

[Sinizter]

Not wanting to throw the thread too off topic, but adding dense RAM to laptops generally saps battery life.

Any links or more info ? Not something I was aware of.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

if you forget RAID and just use the drive partition, and MAKE SURE ITS THE FIRST PARTITION YOU MAKE, it will be similar to a Raptor for the first stuf (OS install etc) and as it becomes more "full" it'll not slow down in the same way a Raptor does as yu'll never get anywhere near the inner parts of the platter. Those willbe the other 400 gig of drive for your data/films/music/photo's etc

Well...that's my experience so far

ahh i see so there realy is not a reason to shell out so much money on a raptor hdd. i'l give this a go when i buy a second hdd and see if it works. so is the first partition ALWAYS the stuff that goes in the outside of the platter?

[F1ZZY]

Well this intrigues me too.

I thought two platters, two head readers...bound to be faster. But nope...not so far for me. Single platter drives (which I guess are denser if we compare max disk capacity as being similar) seem faster.

Yeah, it is a bit wierd. Number of platters makes little difference to read speeds if the data density is the same per platter.

The density itself seems to have a huge impact on read speeds though.

A sweet OS drive will be those samsung 333Gb single platter drives when they materialise (same as the 1Tb F1 drives but without the pricetag, I hope)

[Zak33]

A sweet OS drive will be those samsung 333Gb single platter drives when they materialise (same as the 1Tb F1 drives but without the pricetag, I hope)

when and where?

That intrigues me

The Seagate 160 gig drives have been sinlge platters and they are damn fast.

[Funkstar]

HEXUS.net - Headline :: Samsung launch new 1TB Spinpoint drive : Page - 1/1

[TooNice]

It's worth noting that only the 1TB F1 is on 333GB Platters. The 750GB version is said to be 3x250GB. Western Digital has also announced 320GB platters, and and I am one of many who are waiting to see who will first release the first 640GB drive (2 platter).

[Bobster]

its for this reason why i have my 2nd partition as Photoshop Scratch

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Drive C, E, G and H are WDAAKS 500gig. Drive S is Maxtor dont know which one. Drive T is Hitachi Deskstar. Windows Vista give HDD transfer speed a 5.8.




Are these number any good?

Hi, just a quick note. i have 2 pata hdd's and one sata 32mb catch 7200.11 seagate 500gb hdd. with this sata hdd i just made one partition for it and use it has a media files hdd. when i fired up nero just a min ago it indicated that the speed of this hdd is a whopping 95k+ whilist my others are around 40!

edit: im also runing my sata hdd on sata1 speed not the ful sata2 speeds that this drive can take because of my mobo.

here we go i got a pic of it the low speed hdd you see below is my usb connected one.

[Zak33]

Barracuda SATA drive's are fast....always have been. But pls bear in mind while Nero is good....it's not infallible and it's only a guide to speed.

However....if you partitioned that drive to use about 80gig of it (first partition) for the OS, you'd have a lightning fast boot drive...

[j.o.s.h.1408]

what would be a better tool to check my river speeeds? so roughly my barracuda sata drive is around 80-90 then?

[SiM]

This is a good read for those more interested in partitioning strategy