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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 23:15

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In article <4fk04r$o7l@steel.interlog.com>, Laurent-David Hasson
<ldh@interlog.com> writes

>I have a SCSI 1GB drive that i will partition in 2 blocks. One, small will be 
>reserved for temp, garbage, and the SWAP file (Windows' 95). the other will be 
>used to store apps, data files etc...
>
>I have read somewhere that there was actually quite a difference in performance 
>depending on where data is on a disk. From what i understood, near he center of 
>the disk, transfer rates and access times are quite higher than if the data were 
>at the edge of the disk platter. Is that correct, is it the opposite, is it 
>drive dependent, or is it just plain untrue?

It's true of modern disks that keep more sectors / track at the edge of
the disk.

-- 
John Beardmore

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