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ssd & VM/vhd location - does it matter any more?


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I've created several native boot vhds from w7sp1 Ultimate,

and I'm storing/running them in a non-boot -- non-system partition

(how's that - does it cover everyone's conflicting definitions?),

but on the same physical SSD as the boot--system partition.

Now I want to use these VHDs ALSO in VMs.

The advice over several years seems to have been to locate VMs on a physically different hdd than the boot/system partitiion,

but with SSDs - does it matter anymore since we don't have the same physical platters spinning/seeking?

Thanks

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It may depend what you will be doing on those VMs but in normal circumstances it shouldn't be a problem to store them on the same SSD together with the system partition.

In case of mechanical HDDs it does have a significant impact on performance, no matter how fast the HDD is (I've tested it myself on 15000rpm SAS drives).

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yes Thank You - nothing heavy duty planned for the VMs, just new app testing before adoption to the daily baseline image,

with the ability to compare their behaviour side by side to the daily image.

by the way - the ease of creation & multiple options of manipulation make this file-based approach to visualization seem very compelling -

I think I can understand why (Microsoft-based-dependent) I.T. is evolving in this direction.

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