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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whisper" data-source="post: 390737" data-attributes="member: 89574">I just thought i would add a comment here, i only stumbled by, because i'm curious about buying the 2250 myself.Then i noticed your conversation about partitioning your main hd.I have to say i'm rather surprised that people are still partitioning drives, at the cost of harddrives today.You have to realize that partitioning a harddrive will reduce the performance quite considerably, especially if you place the swap file on a seperate partition. If you think about how a harddrive works mechanically, you will realize why.Very simplified you can say that a harddrive works by having a mechanical arm reading and writing data from and to a spinning disc. And by splitting the same disc up in more than one partition, you are forcing the arm to jump in and out the width of the disc, when reading and writing from seperate partitions.So imagine how you are forcing the harddrive to act, if you split it up in three partitions, with the system on the inner circle, the swap file on the middle, and general storage on the outer circle of the disc. When booting the drive arm will have to jump back and forth like mad, to load the system, and fill the swap. And then imagine doing something data-intensive like compressing movies etc. on the third partition, while swapping, and the system downloading automatic updates...It is true that separating the system from your data helps you fool around with the system, without compromising the data, but you're paying heavily for that in I/O performance.It goes without saying that the best performance comes from splitting jobs on physical drives, instead of logical drives. Most optimal is one drive for OS, one for swap, and one for general data. But a very reasonable compromise is OS and swap file sharing one drive, and then another drive for general data.Any decent defragmenting software places the most used system files, and the swap file close together, in the fastest part of harddrive, exactly due to the fact that the more the mechanical arm has to move around to find your data, the longer it is going to take to get it.Think about it, it's simple physics. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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