title: Azure Table Storage partition individual performance
body: <p>In <a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/multi-tier-web-site/1-overview/">the documentation</a> it states that Azure Table Storage partitions have a minimum speed of 500 operations/second.</p>
  
  <p><strong>If my data is partitioned correctly, would parallel operations on each of these partitions have no affect on each other?</strong></p>
  
  <p>For example, if I had to do expensive full table scans on partition A (maxing at 500 entities/second), would the performance of any operation occuring on partition B be affected? </p>
  
  <p>Storage accounts have a limit of 5000 operations/second.  Does this essentially mean that I can max out 10 partitions before they start to affect each others performance?</p>