And still we disagreePosted by dealer
2z, we,'e had this conversation before.
the heads park along the inner tracks me thinksPosted by dealer
seek time is deminished whem the information is in the area that the heads reside the majority of the time, and this means towards the midddle of your most accesed data, and not at the beginning of the disc, where the heads are at the beginning of the day
seek time is diminished when the information is spread throuhgout the disk
if all the data is at the front of the disk then the heads never need to do a full sweep .
Transfer time is everythingPosted by dealer
Putting a file at the beginning of the HD optimizes transfer time, but hurts seek time, and the cost in seek time is far greater than the gain in transfer time. In other words, it's a net loss.
seek time needs to be measured with specialist software to see the minute differences
transfer time is
how long it takes to load the next level in a game
how long it takes to copy a big file
these operations can vary by minutes not nanoseconds
in other words a net gain