This seems to be an acceptable solution. This would not work with HDDs, because the time to seek between 2 partitions of the same device would cause abysmal pe

This seems to be an acceptable solution. This would not work with HDDs, because the time to seek between 2 partitions of the same device would cause abysmal performance, but on SSDs this should work fine, even if some SSD controllers might still have a lower throughput when reading non-sequential pages.