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scarface19 · 10-11-2006, 01:17 PM

So, basically I divided my new SATA2 hard disk into 2 partitions

System Partition : I use this for Windows, and all installations (games,apps, wotever)

Backup Partition : I use this partition for backing up documents, patches, game saves etc... No installations at all.

Now the thing is this I noticed the backup partition is slower so to test it I defragmented both partitions. Then I extracted the same 4.5gb image first on the system and then on the backup partition. The following are the results

System partition :

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5...tition1ja6.jpg

Backup partition :

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5...tition1qx8.jpg

Does anyone have any explanation why the backup partition is 35% slower than the system partition ? To be honest I expect the backup paritition to be faster since it does not have any installations.

Both partitions have over 50% free space so I guess that's ok also.

10-11-2006, 01:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
scarface19 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3 OS: winxp	why is one partition slower than the other ? So, basically I divided my new SATA2 hard disk into 2 partitions System Partition : I use this for Windows, and all installations (games,apps, wotever) Backup Partition : I use this partition for backing up documents, patches, game saves etc... No installations at all. Now the thing is this I noticed the backup partition is slower so to test it I defragmented both partitions. Then I extracted the same 4.5gb image first on the system and then on the backup partition. The following are the results System partition : http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5...tition1ja6.jpg Backup partition : http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5...tition1qx8.jpg Does anyone have any explanation why the backup partition is 35% slower than the system partition ? To be honest I expect the backup paritition to be faster since it does not have any installations. Both partitions have over 50% free space so I guess that's ok also.