Ive never had anyone able to prove it, who said it does have negatives. And with partitioning you can keep things like yer swap file defraged easy and where physically on the disk its located.
From my experience instability only happens when yer goin the opposite way, disk spanning with software or hardware...and raid 0 especially, which isnt true raid anyways, and has almost no benefits.
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