Sony Vegas Pro 10 and a laptop

[John Rofrano]

[Thomas Roell] “Hmmm … I was more thinking along the line of disabling system restore and using a different cluster size. “

Yes, you could use it for that.

[Thomas Roell] “The head contention is probably not a real problem on a single driver system, given how often system processes do something behind your back and will move that heads no matter whether there is a single partition or multiple partitions. “

I thought you were asking if it had a performance advantage like having a second physical drive does. My point was that with one partition, if you have to save a file the head could save it wherever the next closest free space is. With two partitions, it will have to seek to the second partition before looking for space. I realize you weren’t looking at it that way but that’s the only point I was making.

If you want to make a second partition to make it easier to back things up or use a different cluster size then that’s a valid use for a second partition on the same physical drive.

~jr

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