> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:48 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Looks like MS is trying to shove Vista down consumer's > throats > > How many partitions? > > When you have several partition on one or two drives it will definitely > make everything slower because the OS has to keep up with each > partition > which keeps the hard drive fairly busy.
Nick's right here. I used to be very anal about OS/app separation and move apps onto a separate partition (not separate drive). But that really does slow things down - the disk goes crazy shifting between partitions when opening apps. I've lately just created huge "c" partitions (I still like my data on separate partitions) installed everything there and have noticed much snappier performance on app loads. I use RAID 1 mirrored disks tho so my disk performance is on the low end to begin with (I buy drives for space and reliability, not performance - I'd much rather have a 400 Gig 7200 RPM drive than a 100 Gig 15,000 RPM drive). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232620 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
