Do you think having ...

[Gazereths]

A 1TB drive partitioned into 2 500GB partitions would reduce disk usage in W10? When windows is updating on a single drive (spinning rust not SSD) I've noticed near on 100% disk usage on loads of different budget PC's I've built. I've also noticed a few OEM systems, Dell, Packard Bell etc, partition the single disk into to equal partitions.

 

Just a thought.

[emosun]

it wont result in less usage just more partitions

[.Apex.]

4 minutes ago, Gazereths said:

A 1TB drive partitioned into 2 500GB partitions would reduce disk usage in W10? When windows is updating on a single drive (spinning rust not SSD) I've noticed near on 100% disk usage on loads of different budget PC's I've built. I've also noticed a few OEM systems, Dell, Packard Bell etc, partition the single disk into to equal partitions.

 

Just a thought.

nope, makes zero difference for multitasking

[WereCatf]

13 minutes ago, Gazereths said:

When windows is updating on a single drive (spinning rust not SSD) I've noticed near on 100% disk usage on loads of different budget PC's I've built.

That's simply because spinning rust is slow, has nothing to do with partitions.

13 minutes ago, Gazereths said:

I've also noticed a few OEM systems, Dell, Packard Bell etc, partition the single disk into to equal partitions.

That's mostly because the OEM recovery-tools generally wipe the OS-partition but leave the other one intact, so any files made by the user there won't get destroyed.

[jj9987]

The same physical drive is getting the load and you're still bottlenecked by the limitations of that physical drive. Partitions are just logical/virtual elements on top of that physical drive and do not affect IO performance/capabilities. More partitions won't make your HDD faster.

[Gazereths]

Sorry I forgot about this thread. Thanks for the replies and confirmation of what I thought. Pretty obvious looking back at it now.