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Re: Fastest portion of a HD....

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From: Tony Primavera
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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The outer edge of the Disk is where performance is best because the head
does not move for a longer period of time.  In other words it does not
need to jump to a different track as soon to finish your request.
Also, most drives like Seagate use cache to help your performance so
after the first read of a well used track your likely to get a cache
hit.  One other neat thing Seagate does is read on arrival.  The head
seeks to the track your requested data lives on and begins reading, even
if its not the data you want.  It caches the whole track because it is
likely you will be comming after the rest of it.  Only your requested
data is returned of course.
-- 
Tony Primavera (ECCS Inc. Senior Consultant)
PHONE: (334) 361-7806 FAX:(334) 361-4059
EMAIL: primo@eccs.com  URL: http://www.eccs.com
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From: Tony Primavera <primo@eccs.com>
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Subject: Re: Fastest portion of a HD....
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:00:02 -0600
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