I have partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. / is mounted on /dev/sda1, while all other data is on sda2 which has more size allocated to it.I want to save the virtual machine images (VirtualBox Disk Image)  on sda2.My question is, should I expect any difference in performance if I access data from the second partition? tl;dr -- is there is any difference in performance if I have to access data located on a different partition? If yes, does it make sense to decrease seek times by moving data to /dev/sda1?Please note that this may be one of those micro-optimization issues but I want to squeeze every possible inch of performance I can for the VMs.
Access times for different partitions on same hard disk
partition;performance;virtualization