Performance: Separate parition vs boot camp vs virtual disk

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JaspreetS

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I know this question has come up before, but not really answered to my satisfaction. I'm about to upgrade my hard drive and do a clean install of OS X. My question is as follows:

Which of the following would result in the greatest performance:

1. One partition with Windows being installed on to a virtual disk on the same, single partition as OS X

2. Two partitions, both HFS formatted with OS X on its own partition and a separate 60GB partition for the virtual disk for Windows.

3. Install Windows using boot camp and run Windows through Parallels virtualization.


I'm currently running a MacBook Pro 13" 2.53 Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM.


Thanks,

-Jaspreet
 
There is no much difference in performance, really. You can have plain preallocated virtual image to avoid defragmentation and store it on MacOS partition.
 
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