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Effect of Partition Placement on Performance
Hi,
I have four hard disks and three operating systems (Windows 7, Ubuntu and Fedora) and I want advice on partitioning the disks. In my opinion, I have two options:
1. Install all the operating systems on one hard disk (since only one partition will be in use at a time) and use the other three for different purposes like download storage, media storage, and Virtualbox disk file storage, etc.
Potential Advantage: that the OSes can have concurrent access for different jobs (e.g., Virtualbox, download, and media-serving activities, simultaneously); more space for the data partitions.
Potential Disadvantage: the OSes installed in the latter part of the OS disk will be lower in performance.
2. Install the OSes at the beginning of three of the disks, and the other data partitions on the remaining part of the disks.
Potential Advantage: Better performance of all the OSes, in general.
Potential Disadvantage: Lesser space for data partitions.
How do you think I should use the disk? How much (benchmark results / statistics will be very helpful!) of an impact does the placement (at the beginning or at the end) of a hard disk partition has on performance?