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Article #9158Re: Does partitioning speed up access time?
From: Steve Ligett
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 19:42
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 19:42
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In article <4653.25acd701@uwovax.uwo.ca> 23031_676@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: .I recently bought a Nec PowerMate 286, 10 mhz, with a Priam drive. Access speed .is supposed to be about 30 but is actually 50 with data thruput about 650. The .disc is not partitioned; it is 42 mb. I asked the service magager of the dealer .if the speed of access would be improved by partitioning as 30/12, and he has .denied it. Does anybody know whether he is wrong? ... Bob Gibson (of SpinRite fame (did I get that right?)) once wrote in InfoWorld that he partioned his 18 ms drive into five partitions, giving an average access time of less than 4 ms. ha ha ha ha ha ha But seriously folks, the average seek time of part of a drive (a partition) will be less than that of a whole drive. -- steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!stevel From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Does partitioning speed up access time? Message-ID: <18762@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 23 Jan 90 19:42:03 GMT References: <4653.25acd701@uwovax.uwo.ca> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 14