Harddrive size relative to game performance?

[Raziaar]

I have my 120 gig hard drive formatted into several partitions, most of which are 20 gigs, the operating system partition being about 35-40 gigs.

If I install a game on one of the 20 gig partitions, and say it has like, 14 gigs left of free room, is it slower than the same game, installed on a partition with say, 50-80 or more gigs of room?

What I am asking, is hard drive space relative to game performance and speed, or only when the space available is down to such a restrictive size like a gig or less?

 

[Fliko]

No!
Well, intill you get to 1-2 GBs of freespace.
You are thinking of RPM speed, which, really only affects loading times.

 

[Naudian]

^ I'm sure he knows that (RPM)

I've wondered this also, but if anything a smaller drive would be faster, no?
...actually...nevermind.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Only in some really bizarre situation like super-hyper-mega-fragmentation (technical term) would cause the game to slow down with multiple gigs left, all other things equal. Otherwise, extra free space won't make a difference.

Though I do find it interesting that you have so many partitions. Afraid your games won't play nice if left in the same room together?

 

[giant384]

more stuff on your hardrive can make it slower not the size of it

 

[Raziaar]

more stuff on your hardrive can make it slower not the size of it

Yeah, all I have on the hard drive is a single game.

Thanks for the information, boys!

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I dunno, I figured i'd try it. I figured it might be better than having just one huge partition like I always have in the past. So I broke it up into smaller partitions. One of which I use for special applications like photoshop, 3d studio max, etc.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

The fact you have so many partitions is what can make them slower.

You should reserve games to one very large partition, video data to another, Os like you have to one, though I'm not sure why you need 35 Gigs.

I personally would keep the OS on one smaller one not exceeding 8GB, virtual memory on a 2GB partition, and keep the rest open.

 

[Raziaar]

The fact you have so many partitions is what can make them slower.

You should reserve games to one very large partition, video data to another, Os like you have to one, though I'm not sure why you need 35 Gigs.

I personally would keep the OS on one smaller one not exceeding 8GB, virtual memory on a 2GB partition, and keep the rest open.

Problem with the OS partition, is that thats where the my documents folder and stuff is... desktop, other game information, program files etc. So it needs to be larger and stuff.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Problem with the OS partition, is that thats where the my documents folder and stuff is... desktop, other game information, program files etc. So it needs to be larger and stuff.

My My Documents is not on my OS partition.

My OS on my desktop takes up less than 3GB of space on a <5GB partition.

 

[psyno]

The only thing that's really going to affect speed is where the partitions physically fall on your platters. Obviously if your partition is pretty full and files being written are getting fragmented, that's not good, but assuming that's not the case, the size of the partition won't directly decide how fast the drive operates over the data it stores.