Before Mulholland chips in...Not as old as me!!

:)

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question

I said "USED TO BE". I'm old. :)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
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From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question

Interesting, I see your point.      Still though, the head would be jumping 
around a lot less.  Wouldn't that contribute to some gains?

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From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
>From a friend of mine at Fujitsu.

There is no longer any point to short stroking a drive. Modern Drives have 
recording density zones that basically change with the distance from center. I 
am not sure there's been a non-zoned drive made in about a decade...:)

S

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question

Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid "full stroke" 
access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in 
order to maximize performance. I saw this in mainframes, in large database 
rollouts, in large Exchange rollouts, etc.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange

From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question

Lol...that's too funny!!!

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question

I say yes.   What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the 
drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? 
 And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive.



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From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the 
data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if 
it were just all on one partition.


From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question

We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google...

Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two 
partitions?  One partition for the OS and the other for everything else?

I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong.

Bill Lambert
Windows System Administrator
Concuity
A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc.
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