I asked when would that not be the case? You just gave another example of when it would be. Also, I said there would be no noticeable performance decrease. Oh? Can you give an example where drive failure only affects a single partition? If the stepper motor fails, that affects all. If the drive motor fails, that affects all. If the interface card on the drive fails, that affects all. Yes, you can have a single partition become corrupt, but it would be difficult, if possible at all, to prove that corruption was due to the fact there were multiple partitions. I am not trying to convince you multiple partitions are bad. Just that they should not be relied upon as something better for data integrity or performance. Just convenience - which can be a very good thing. But I think the way Windows uses "Libraries" should be considered too. For example, Windows does not care if your Documents folder is on drive C or drive D.
I will not try to convince you the opposite either, so I'll keep relying on partitions for data integrity and performance in most scenarios I could work on. For me, that is part of convenience. And as usual, I'd stop replying here to your posts cause this could become an endless discussion. Best regards @Bill_Bright
Okay. But if looking for both data integrity and performance, I would strongly recommend 2 large physical drives instead. Then, you could back up one to the other and in the event of a real drive failure, have something to recover from. Only because I'm a rock and you're a hard place!
Users still partition disks be they SSD-Spindle types and maybe even more so of late more than before due to the variety choice of going from Win 10 to Linux flavor and/or the other way around. We also seen users who prefer the combo of Windows 7-8 along with 10 and such. Still others like to reserve a hefty or lesser percentage of hard disk space for data/files what have you. Most of us get that I think. In this particular scenario which was purposed beforehand to go Full On Primary, the option to utilize all space for a single form-Windows 8-suits the personal preference and I might as well side with the opinion of better performance or at the very least, durability. Seems the read-write ordeal is something that might always be for some up for debate/comparisons which might be best for a HD lasting longer or not, but you can't overlook the fact that manufacturers of these hardware parts are improving if only by slight advances from year to year. Again for this user it returns to the cost menu. Substantially larger disk drive space which can support much more data compared to solid state circuited drives which arguably can do the same and at a higher rate of data transfer speed might be to one's advantage, but there is little room for comparison where concerns the cost of that extra speed vs the thrifty nickel fellow who's personal or business system will still run to expectations and at a lower overhead in price. Or so it is as the marketplace currently stands.
My preference is a small cheap SSD for the OS and a HD for everything else. My kids had laptops with slow HDs. We replaced the HD with a cheap SSD and put the HD in the optical bay. Now there is no optical drive but it wasn't used anyway. The laptop performance is much improved and it will be a few more years before I need to buy new laptops. A money saver.
It's thrifty like that on this end and here's the rub I found, at least in the area I am. Purchased brand spanking new WD 120Gb SSD for approx. 60+ greens. It was more or less a test for Windows 10 to see how it would perform. Yesterday for approx. that same amount, 60 USD, I walk out of the computer store with a Western Digital 1Tb in new condition since it was immediately removed from a new laptop where they commonly make it such a practice to go the SSD route if their not already installed. Those HD's add up, I get them for discount, and life chugs along in the Windows world as usual but with much more storage space at drastically less cost.
Thanks. That's one of the few times I've seen our prices cheaper. $33 US for a WD Green here. I might get one.
The SSD is the lightest piece of electronics in a HD I ever held. It's like nothing but a hollow square of plastic but it's full SSD performance, just not the Gb per dollar cost im ready to accept for them just yet compared to spindles. They are on-fire a hot commodity item that is responsible no doubt for the price they are selling since a largely rural area is somewhat limited to in-shop/store purchases. Of course their is always amazon and home-business delivery but last time I checked those were pretty stiff retail numbers too per Gb capacity.
Little item to add for discussion or making notes. After the successful expansion courtesy MiniTool, this same new drive having a Macrium backup emergency backup restored, Today took up the task of pasting on top of this same drive (again) with an even more recent IMAGE RESTORE this time using DS since it was the single only most recent one and DS performed absolutely to pinpoint perfection despite taking 3 + hours or better but it did ask if I wanted to also expand the partition to fit the SNA onto the whole 1 TeraByte partition I didn't see alert from macrium. Hence I had to open a topic here and ask for advice. DS did that operation on it's own and the new RESTORE went off without a single hitch. DS to this very day going back to Windows 98 is not failed once. Perfect track record-a very rare feat and proves again it's reliability again!!
This one is a masterpiece-Converted a Legacy to GPT-UEFI in a matter of seconds. Just for your guys notes if you don't already know. Aomei Partition Assistant ~ Removed Copyrighted Image ~
