Partioned vs no partition HHD

[poldopunk]

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Purposes for partitioning:
having an area for operating system virtual memory swapping/paging

I wouldn't recommend this, it slows your hard drive down since the read/write head has to go back and forth to move files/applications for virtual memory/paging. Virtual memory or paging files SHOULD be on a different drive.

[RON661]

+1 ko ani...sakto if ma virusan simple papas imo tanan files di na ma recover when reformat.

heheh sakto sad pero tag sa raman ma infected ang gi partition na backup drive mostly naa dyud sa system drive ... pero boss ang question nya asa ang mas maayo, partition o dili partition?... usa pa kung wala kay lain hdd mas prefer dyud mag partition kay sa single drive PEACE bro! :d

[Envy 64Ht]

For a newbies in computer it is confusing as to whether to use a partitioned against a non-partitioned HHD. The purpose of this post is to give and help understand the newbies to choose between partitioned and without partition HHD.

To use a partitioned against a non-partitioned HDD? even if you use the whole space of the HDD,
you still need to partition it. question should be either to use single or a multi-partition. non-partitioned
HDD will render it useless. (correct me if i'm wrong)

Using multi-partitions on a single HDD will sacrifice performance but will save you money than getting
more drives.

[Envy 64Ht]

+1 ko ani...sakto if ma virusan simple papas imo tanan files di na ma recover when reformat.

As long walay mechanical error ang drive, 99.9% files are still recoverable.

[carmicael]

I wouldn't recommend this, it slows your hard drive down since the read/write head has to go back and forth to move files/applications for virtual memory/paging. Virtual memory or paging files SHOULD be on a different drive.

but it serves as one of the purposes of partitioning, recommendable or not. XD

[poldopunk]

^ very well said. now it goes down to this:

if you want performance, leave it unpartitioned; data redundancy (of a lesser degree), partition your drive.

[brenger]

thank you elder bro's sa world of computer! Daghan ang mi pabor pag multi-partition sa HDD ug ang klaro ra gyud nga rason is ang pag separate sa system ug user data, right? very obvious kay sa single partition nag share ra man ug usa ka drive space ang system ug ang data --usually drive C, am i right? now i want to know it clearly in terms of its performance such as speed and life span of the HHD, to which has its advantage?

[istoryanimo]

Partition is good. Much better to separate hard drives for stable performance. Heres my current setup.

C: systems, applications and games (500GB)

D: My documents : mp3, movies, pictures, applications.exe etc (1TB)
E: My documents : mp3, movies, pictures, applications.exe etc (1TB )
Note : Both D & E were already Raid What is RAID? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary

F: Performance for memory usage only (250GB)

PSU : Cooler Master - Ultimate provider of Computer Chassis | Cooler | Power Supply

All drives are Sata .. for furture upgrade.. SSD ( mahal pa karon)

[ZikE]

Partitions of your hard drive is like setting up rooms on your HDD. for example you have a 160GB HDD, if you partition it you would have 2 Partitions around 80GB of space...so when you allocate your OS to one of the "rooms" you have on the one room automous or separate from your OS room, meaning to say you can save data files on your separate room, so if your OS room crashes, your data room is unaffected...

Hope it helps!

sak2 neh ai.. mas nindot man jd kong partitions kay naa kay mga uban mga butang or files save sa lain drive kong ma virusan emong pc sayun ra kaau e back up unless kong 1 partition ra emong HDD lisod kaau hasle kong ma virusan need na sd ka lain HDD for your files back up.

[Mildseven]

para sa ako if ur HD is 40 Gb.. must ang pratitioning.. if 20.. ayaw nalang.. hehehehe

sa akong 160 ang partition nako is.. C= OS D= DATA E= downloads from torrent and others.. then transfer to D .. para ma arange ug tarung..

pero karun.. Disk0S1 <--- EFI for booting MAC/Chameleon boot load Disk0s2 <----- MAC OSX Disk0s3 = Data drive

Disk1s1 .. Windows 7 64bit Disk1s2 = DATA windows files..
Disk2s1 = Ubuntu linux
Disk2s2 = Beta OS ( any beta OS i want to ry )

hehehehehe daghan no..

HDD0= 160 GB
HDD1= 500 GB
HDD2= 320 GB