Re: Logical and Physical disk drives

Alain Dekker wrote:
Logical disks:

Does it help to partition your 40 Gb C:\ into two 20 Gb partitions
(C:\ and D:\)? If I had an application that only wrote to D:\ (and
lets say, for arguments sake, that the app writes frequently to
disk), would the partition help reduce the likelihood of OS
corruption? Would it reduce disk fragmentation?

Physical disks:

On a related note, does having two physical drives help with the
above? Presumably with file fragmentation it would, but what about
helping with OS corruption?

If your OS becomes corrupt because of frequent disk writes - you need a
different application than the one that is abusing your system - as it is
badly written.

Think about this simply.

If you have one physical disk - no matter how you partition it - all the
data travels through the same cable.

And you are speaking of - in relative terms - some small disks. If I had a
40GB drive - I would make it my OS and programs drive (maybe partitioned -
probably not considering its size) and all my data would be on a seperate
(physical) hard disk drive.

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