Separate boot partitions

[v0id]

I've been separating my boot partitions in all my builds since the mid millennium, and have only recently (the last ~3 yrs) been dealing with SSDs. Before that they have been all mechanical and it seemed the prevailing procedure was to cut up your drive so it booted faster. Whether that was true or not, I stuck to it nonetheless and have been doing it for the past decade or so. But my question now is, because my SSD boots up so fast anyway, around seven seconds actually, is it still worthwhile to do it from a speed perspective? I've been doing it for long it only hit me recently that I'm probably wasting my time.

 

Thoughts? Any advantages or disadvantages that I might be overlooking?

[failblox]

How is it faster to split up your hard drive into different boot partitions...? I've never heard of this before and logically thinking using information I know, I cannot see how that would work. Could you explain?

 

Edit: Also, just pointing out that a millennium is a year, so since we're in the third millennium (according to the Gregorian calendar) by saying "mid millennium" you're basically saying we're in the 2500s

[pwn_intended]

Splitting a HDD into 2 partitions for OS and programs will decrease performance due to the overhead and read head thrashing that would happen. Splitting it up for OS/programs and media (pics, music etc) could in theory be better, if for just organization. Having 2 separate disks would improve performance a bit.

2 separate drives is ALWAYS better than partitions. I would not bother with partitioning an SSD, UNLESS it is for having multiple OS's.

[v0id]

How is it faster to split up your hard drive into different boot partitions...? I've never heard of this before and logically thinking using information I know, I cannot see how that would work. Could you explain?

 

Edit: Also, just pointing out that a millennium is a year, so since we're in the third millennium (according to the Gregorian calendar) by saying "mid millennium" you're basically saying we're in the 2500s

 

Dice it so you have one partition as the C: (booting) and another as your 'data' drive for games and such. I guess my wording wasn't the greatest there. The theory, at least so as I read it, was that the drive would have only it's core OS files for boot in one partition, and all the 'junk' of the drive on a different partition. It supposedly resulted in faster boot times because the drive had everything it needed in one nice and neat little section.

 

 

Splitting a HDD into 2 partitions for OS and programs will decrease performance due to the overhead and read head thrashing that would happen. Splitting it up for OS/programs and media (pics, music etc) could in theory be better, if for just organization. Having 2 separate disks would improve performance a bit.

2 separate drives is ALWAYS better than partitions. I would not bother with partitioning an SSD, UNLESS it is for having multiple OS's.

 

Thanks for the insight.