I have a 120 GB HDD that is partitioned as 20 GB for Windows and 100 GB for games (both NTFS), now I got a 160 GB HDD, I am keeping 20 GB of it for Ubuntu, that leaves 140, should I keep it as one, or divide it? and what does have to do with performance?
The only thing that I can think of that will affect performance in your partition is what you set your cluster sizes to. Small clusters will help you read smaller files much more quickly. Large clusters will help you read larger files much faster, such as archives and videos, or game disc images if you do the whole HDD mounted image thing. Usually the default cluster size fits right in the middle to account for diverse sizes of files, this may be ideal for an OS partition. If you are going to be putting games and movies and media and high file sizes on a partition, the only way performance is affected is by cluster size, so set it accordingly.
A solid 20GB for OS + applications, the rest for data and documents, that's what I usually use. You have 2 more partitions if you add linux to it, one for the OS, the second one for the swap
I have 2 150 GB Raptors and I do: OS (20 GB, XP) MEDIA (Movies, Pictures, Music, Documents) APPLICATIONS (Where all my application installs go, games, etc) GHOST/BACKUP (A sync image of my OS and APPLICATION partitions and a backup of all my install files)
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