On Jul 22, 2012 11:23 PM, "Jacques Montier" wrote: > > Hello, > > I have just a (maybe silly) question... > I saw on some forums that partitionning SSDs could slow down read/write access. > Is it true or simply intox ? > On my sata HD, i have boot, /, usr and home separated partitions. > What do you think of it ? > > Thank you, > > Cheers > My intuition said that separating a hard disk into several partitions should result in a slightly faster system, because writes to different partitions will not cause metadata contention (e.g., journal, volume bitmap, etc.) But that's just my intuition; I'd be very interested in a definitive answer from anyone well-versed in filesystems. Rgds,