Planning on partitioning HDD w/ boot camp

[chuckflip53]

MBP mid-2010 250gb 5400rpm

I'm wondering:
a) how many partitions i should create
b) recommended size of those partitions
c) where to install the windows OS

in order to minimize loading times for commmon applications (word, chrome) and thus, which partitions to install these apps on

I read that since the outer parts of the HDD are the quickest, that I should create the first partition for my more commonly used apps and the inner (2nd/3rd etc) partitions for data storage - can somebody confirm?

Thanks for all suggestions

 

[AttilaTheHun]

MBP mid-2010 250gb 5400rpm

I'm wondering:
a) how many partitions i should create
b) recommended size of those partitions
c) where to install the windows OS

in order to minimize loading times for commmon applications (word, chrome) and thus, which partitions to install these apps on

I read that since the outer parts of the HDD are the quickest, that I should create the first partition for my more commonly used apps and the inner (2nd/3rd etc) partitions for data storage - can somebody confirm?

Thanks for all suggestions

All your options are right
my only recomendation is to use bootcomp because it use all the surces of the computer when you use all the 3rd party softrare and running win and OS X the prossor and the ram splite by half and slowing yourcomputer
(sory on my spaling)

 

[chuckflip53]

All your options are right
my only recomendation is to use bootcomp because it use all the surces of the computer when you use all the 3rd party softrare and running win and OS X the prossor and the ram splite by half and slowing yourcomputer
(sory on my spaling)

Yes, I'll be using bootcamp for my windows OS

This is the order of the partitions I'm thinking of (approx):

1. 30GB common apps + small files (docs etc)
2. 25GB MAC OS
3. 25GB Bootcamp
4. Storage

Should that be fine (in terms of level of partitions and size)

 

[2hvy4grvty]

Gonna need more than 25 GB.

I pretty much have nothing on my Mac partition and I'm using 28. The only additional software I installed was Chrome, Thunderbird, Virtual Box, Netbeans, and MS Office.

I've got my Windows partition using 35 GB with an install of iTunes, Chrome, Thunderbird, and MATLAB.

Technically, yes, the driver head would have to move less.

 

[chuckflip53]

Gonna need more than 25 GB.

I pretty much have nothing on my Mac partition and I'm using 28. The only additional software I installed was Chrome, Thunderbird, Virtual Box, Netbeans, and MS Office.

I've got my Windows partition using 35 GB with an install of iTunes, Chrome, Thunderbird, and MATLAB.

Technically, yes, the driver head would have to move less.

How about this setup:

Partition 1: 60GB (Mac OS + most used programs + small random files)
Partition 2: 40GB (Windows OS Bootcamp)
Partition 3: 150GB (data storage)