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Please stop partitioning your SSDs (unless you plan to dual-boot)

The practice of partitioning a single drive into multiple logical volumes is a habit deeply rooted in the history of personal ...
InfoWorld

Partitioning for performance in a sharding database system

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...
Electronic Design

Memory Partitioning and Slack Scheduling Boost Performance in Safety-Critical Applications

Developers of safety-critical software can take advantage of RTOS features like cache partitioning and slack scheduling to reduce worst-case execution time for critical tasks and boost overall CPU ...
Ars Technica

Platters, partitions, and performance. Relation?

Hello,<BR><BR>I'll soon be building a system around a WD 640gb Caviar Black, which is a 2-platter drive. It will be dual booting WinXP and Linux, so I'll need to partition it. I'm concerned that ...
Neowin

NIUBI Partition Editor 9.9.8

Free partition manager software for Windows PC and Server. Resize existing volume safely and perform a variety of disk partition management operations. Clone disk partition to migrate operating system ...
Nature

Cache Management and Partitioning in Multicore Systems

Modern multicore systems demand sophisticated strategies to manage shared cache resources. As multiple cores execute diverse workloads concurrently, cache interference can lead to significant ...