Splitting your storage drive is a technical process that many people don’t deal with and seems difficult at first. Don’t be fooled if look like that. First, let’s examine the task of the disk compartment. The pros and cons of what is going on.

You install your operating system on a disk, such as a HDD or SSD. The installer sees your disk as unallocated space. You need to create a partition so that the operating system knows which partition the drive can use. This is called partition.  When you format these sections in a specific area according to a specific file system, that is, when you make them available, the resulting field is named volume.

The disk partition operation is performed to see a single physical disk as if it were one or more disks. There are positive and negative aspects of this situation.

Benefits of Disk partitioning

1.Easy Restore

You are dividing the disk and set up one of your operating system. Even if you format the computer, it only affects the part of the operating system, so you don’t have to touch any of your other information.

2. Simple back up

It is important to take a backup. If you split your disk and use part of it as a backup, you’ll have a little more confidence in your documents. This method is not as effective as using a separate physical disk.

3. Multiple Operating Systems

If you want to install a second or third operating system on your system, and you do not have another disk for them, your best option would be to allocate another disk to the software.

4. Different File Systems

Not every operating system works very well with every file system. You can also eliminate this problem, if you partition your drive according to the operating system and format it with file systems such as exFAT and NTFS.

Missing Disk Partition

1.Increased complexity and error margin

When you divide your disk, you are naturally increasing the files you need to deal with. It looks easy at first. When the divisions begin to become crowded over time, it can be a serious waste of time to understand what’s happening.

2. The Wasted Space

You don’t need to think about where your files are going, as long as you have a single disk partition. However, you can not place each file efficiently when the number is multiplied. This means a disk is full and the other one’s is empty.

Unnecessary for Most Users

Although we have counted the benefits above, it is also true that the number of users who do this is not very much.  So it might be an option to use the files on the same disk instead of splitting the disk.

So How Is Disk Partition Operating Done?

If you decide to divide your disk, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re using Windows, you need to come to manage PC and choose Disk Management. You will then right-click the disk you want to divide and shrink the volume. After you have done this, your new partition will be created. Don’t forget to format this new partition.

Things aren’t too complicated in MacOS. You can easily divide through the pie chart that opens when you enter the Disk impression app on your Mac and click the partition at the top. Don’t forget to choose the file format you need.