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Article #41330Re: Does partitioning speed up access time?
From: Daniel M Floyd
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 08:50
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 08:50
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Partitioning does not speed up the access time. However, your apparent disk speed will improve because the time it takes to do many disk operations is a function of the disk size. For example average seek time will improve - not because the disk itself can find data quicker, but because all your data will be clumped together by partitions. Dan Floyd 8<D=
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