Partition or Dedicated Drive in Bootcamp?

Hey guys, my new mac pro is being shipped right now (pics to come), and I had a quick question.

Should I dedicate an entire drive to boot camp? Will that be faster than partitioning a drive?

I will have three 500 GB drives, and probably won't need more than a terabyte on OSX. I will use windows a lot for gaming, but not really for anything else.

Is there any speed difference between a partition and a dedicated drive?

Thanks for your help!

i have a 200GB partion on one of my WD 500GB drives. i haven't seen any speed difference yet and its been about 5 months since i did it. hope this helps a little.

If it were me, I'd dedicate one of the three drives for Bootcamp. There wouldn't be any performance difference by doing it either way though. I would do it mainly just to keep partitions/data organized.

Thunder82 said:

If it were me, I'd dedicate one of the three drives for Bootcamp. There wouldn't be any performance difference by doing it either way though. I would do it mainly just to keep partitions/data organized.

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I agree whole-heartedly with this person. Now if only I could get an external hard drive for my MacBook Pro...