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Originally posted by TazDevil
Generally i dont beleive it is good to hack your hdd in two, it is best you buy another drive.... it strains the motor and hardware staff, so the drive could fail sooner that expected...

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I'm sorry, but that's a load of bullsh*t. Partitioning a hard drive can actually be beneficial. Far from wearing it out quicker, it'll actually protect you against catastrophic failure! Imagine your Windows partition got nuked - if your work's on a different partition, and/or you have another OS on another partition, you can still use the PC. Not to mention you can get more efficient use of space. The smaller partitions willr esult in smaller cluster sizes = more data can be squeezed on the disk. While not as much of an issue with NTFS, it can still be a benefit (recuded MFT means more space).
I know you can do this with two HDDs as well, but for some that's not an option.