Hard Drive Partioning - General Question

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ThomJMag

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This may be a stupid question, but one I am rather curious about.

With my new PC build, I'll be adding a 250GB hard drive. It's been about 5 years since my last PC purchase, so I'm curious is partitioning a hard drive is still a common practice or necessarily needed anymore (with today's MOBO, processor, and hard drive technology).

I know that for some, they would partition their HDD with the OS on on partition and to save files / run applications on the other partitions. I believe this was done for performance purposes. For me, I partitioned my HDD just to keep things organized.

With today's HDD technology, is partitioning still commonly done? If it is still a common practice, for what purposes is it done? Does partitioning have performance improvement capabilities?
 
Yes partitioning is very common. I'm not sure about performance, but it makes things more organizable. Thats why I partition my HDs.
 
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