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ha,,,just found out another of those tech folk lore that everybody beleives, but isn't actually true...man I love these;
on the current hard drives, seek time actually turns out to be worse not better on the first and last few percent of the drive's cylinders.
get this...drive software in some cases will slow the arm down in the outer edges so it doesn't hit the limit stops...obviously,hitting those is a vewy vewy bad.
I LOVE when and old notion is no longer true...*waits for the proper moment to spring this info on someone and start a huge debate*
anyway, it's just a small percentage of those cylendars that get slowed down, I suspect the first protion of a hard drive is still the optimum portion of the drive if it's going to be an average sized partition
on the current hard drives, seek time actually turns out to be worse not better on the first and last few percent of the drive's cylinders.
get this...drive software in some cases will slow the arm down in the outer edges so it doesn't hit the limit stops...obviously,hitting those is a vewy vewy bad.
I LOVE when and old notion is no longer true...*waits for the proper moment to spring this info on someone and start a huge debate*
anyway, it's just a small percentage of those cylendars that get slowed down, I suspect the first protion of a hard drive is still the optimum portion of the drive if it's going to be an average sized partition