(OT) More of a hardware qustion>> faster speed on the last partition... right?

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Bill Yanaire said:
Very very funny. I didn't know WalMart employees were so articulate!
Sounds like an article I read in Penhouse a few years back. I'll see if I
can dig it up.
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Penthouse has articles?!?

Tom Lake
 
Tom Lake said:
Penthouse has articles?!?
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He didn't say Penthouse. He said PeNhouse. They have these centerfolds of
Bics and Cross and Parker pens. And, apparently, articles written by, uh,
pens. Sounds fantastic, no?
 
Vista said:
I am thinking.. since the hard disk platter spins :-). the speed of the data
should be greater
on the outside rim of the disk.. since there the angular speed is greater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_speed

therefore if you have 3 paritions

the last one would be the one with the faster data transfer since each
partition takes up an area of the HDD and each new parition is more towards
the rim..... right?

Therefore if you have a disk paritioned the OS should logicaly be faster on
the last partition...

SO that would be the best partition to install the OS right?
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Well your thinking is along the right lines... :-)

Actually, hard disk locations go the other way round, so the first
partition is the fastest.
This is why your operating system tries to put the files used for
startup (and other frequently used files) near the start of the disk, so
that they're read faster and you don't need to make partitions.

Actually, it's more complicated than that. Average seek times to data in
the middle of the disk are lower than the times to data at the edges
(from a random position, you can move the head to middle quicker than to
the beginning).

Alun Harford
 
How long did you stay awake thinking up this mess?

The first partition begins on the outside of the first platter. The read
head and write head moves from the outside > inside.

A CD reads/writes from the inside to outside.
A Dvd player/burner does same thing, just uses different laser positioning.
 
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