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Quick Navigation: • • • • • Several days ago, I browsed forums for Windows partitioning related problems as usual and surprisingly found a huge number of users asked the same question – does partitioning a hard drive affect computer performance. Disappointingly, most of them haven't got a satisfying answer, so I wrote this post and hope it contains necessary information those folks want to know. This post mainly consists of 3 parts: what is partitioning, does partitioning affect performance, and how to do partitioning properly.

Now, let's begin. Overview of Partition Hard Disk in Windows When I'm asking what is disk partitioning, most of you would answer it is to separate one physical hard disk into one or more independent partitions. Indeed, when searching such a question on the internet, users are always given this answer, and Wikipedia also says: 'Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on a hard disk or other secondary storage, so that an operating system can manage information in each region separately'. But as a matter of fact, to divide a physical hard disk into multiple parts is just one of the partitioning operations, which might be a brand new point of view for most people. For a brand new or never-used hard disk you have to initialize it to either at first, which determines partition style, otherwise creating partition is not allowed. After partitions have been created, there are still lots of other partitioning operations to do, such as defrag/format/delete/resize/merge/split/align partition, change partition cluster size, convert between NTFS and FAT32, convert partition style between MBR and GPT, etc. Reading here some of you would be more eager to know whether partitioning affects computer performance or not.

If influence, how? For specific answers, please keep reading this post. Does Disk Partitioning Impact Performance? Tip: Here disk partitioning refers to all partitioning operations, not limited to creating partitions on hard disk. You may be curious about these two questions: does partitioning a hard drive increase performance or does partitioning slow down computer?

Actually, you can't simply say Yes or No to answer these questions, because just a part of partitioning operations (not all) influence computer performance, among which some increase performance, some make no sense to performance, and the remaining slow down the computer. Then, let's see the details from the following part. What Partitioning Operations Affect Computer Performance Among all partitioning operations mentioned above, to create partitions, defrag partition, enlarge partition, adjust partition cluster size, and align partition could impact the computer performance.

The remaining ones have little or no influence. 1. Create Multiple Partitions on One Physical Disk Creating multiple partitions on one physical hard disk can either increase performance or decrease performance. To increase: Having multiple partitions makes it possible to save data by category, for example one partition for operating system, one for frequently used data, and one for games, which is faster and more convenient for us to access, organize and manage data. It can also raise overall computer performance on systems where smaller file systems are more efficient. For instance, large hard disks with multiple NTFS file systems typically are always having small sequentially accessed Master File Table (MFT for short), and it generally takes less time to read this kind of MFT than the bigger MFT of smaller partitions. It reduces the time for diagnostic tools such as CHKDSK and Disk Defragmenter to run.