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Old 01-11-2010, 08:11 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by dton13 View Post
partition it? following that unproven urban myth (or i haven't seen any proof, but it makes sense) by wiping and creating a first partition of say < 200GB for the OS it'll be placed on the outer edge of the platter meaning faster seek times, etc. then just fill the rest with shit all.
I actually just tested that theory recently. It actually works, a bit. Mostly BS though.

Fact is, I only need about 100GB on my Windows drive, and I am not about to store my important data on a single drive. I'll just use the spare space for a 2nd redundancy to my storage drives with a backup program.
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