Dr. Disk writes:
>If defragmentation made a
>significant performance difference I would say that your file system
is
>probably FAT32 (vs NTFS) and your disk must have been near full at
some
>point. If that's not correct I'd like to know.
Hmm, I am not a computer engineer but isn't the data transfer rate
higher on the outside part of the platter?
The angular velocity is the same of course but the linear velocity is
much higher towards the outside.
Having the head find the most used files and applications there w/o
moving around would suggest
better performance in at least two ways. I think in the past people
would create a partition on the outside and not used the inner one much
at all---"short-stroking" I think it was/is called. So this is less
relevant now?
Fragmented understanding of this now, Mike
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