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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:15:24 CDT
- Reply-To: "Michael T. Weaver, RN Ph.D." <NURS036@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU>
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- From: "Michael T. Weaver, RN Ph.D." <NURS036@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU>
- Subject: Summary: Disk Partitions & Performance
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- CONTENT: Summary
- SUMMARY: Effects of PC Hard Disk Partitions on Performance
- REL/PLTF: ALL / PC: DOS, WINDOWS, OS-2
- E-ADDR: nurs036@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu
- NAME: Michael T. Weaver RN Ph.D.
- PH/ADDR: (205) 934-6913/ UAB Station, Birmingham, AL 35294-1210
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- First, my thanks to: Joe Walsh <jwalsh@umdacc.umd.edu>, Rodney Sparapini
- <sparap@sophie.mscs.mu.edu> and Nelson Pardee <sasmaint@suvm> for their
- ideas.
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- The consensus was that there would be no performance advantage (and, even,
- there may be a slight degradation) in breaking a large hard drive into
- several smaller partitions.
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- As a result, it was suggested to partition the drive based on how it was
- used (e.g.: small boot partition, partition for stable programs, partition
- for volatile data, etc.) if divided into smaller partitions.
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- Biggest performance gains may be realized by use of a good disk caching pgm
- and keeping the drive defragmented.
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- Thanks again for your ideas.
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- Birmingham, AL 35294-1210 Phone : (205) 934-6913
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