Will Partitioning HD for Photos/ Music help with speed?

[Learjet035]

I've always had a MBP, so my extensive music and photos collection can't live on the laptop. I've always kept them on 2 externals and suffered some slow downs due to the setup.

I just ordered a 27" iMac i5 =)
I'd like to keep my 130GB collection now on my iMac.

I use a buncha photoshop/ Lightroom
Was curious if I was to partition say 150GB for pics and 100GB for music if that would help out the computer at all?

I really have no idea, just seems like the imac wouldn't have to sift through anything to find my pics when I go workin on them.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Learjet035]

sorry for the bump, but need some help here.

 

[iLog.Genius]

Generally, it won't increase/decrease performance. On a windows computer, defragging your HDD might increase performance but I believe OS X already does this for you. The only thing is now all your media will be in one place rather than in the external HDD's.