AFP -- Folders or partitions?

We're setting up a new file server and I'm looking for some guidance.
On our current server, we have a drive partitioned into several sections and users access their stuff on those partitions. We have about 80 users who share files in about a dozen different partition "buckets." The server was configured long before I came on, so there's no way of knowing why it was arranged the way it is.
In moving forward, I'm wondering if there's any reason to keep the partitioning scheme, or if we might be better off just creating folders on the drive and making share points out of those.
Anybody have any opinions either way?

Click here for information; in addition, partitioning restricts how large a specific set of files can get beyond the capacity of the drive itself.
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