| ??? 02/20/10 08:11 Read: times |
#173336 - Still don't see how it helps Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Justin Fontes said:
When one partitions a drive I think the hardware for the hard drive will split up the sectors sequentially and that the hard drive will reserve sectors for each partition like the C drive will begin at 100 and end at 800 and D drive will begin 801 and go to 1000. I have no idea if that's true or not - but it makes no difference! Your original thesis was to "keep the heads of the drive closer to the information pertaining to [the] task at hand". So, if the system files are in one partition, one application's files are in another, the next application's files are in yet another, etc, there is no way for the heads of a single physical drive to stay close to the information at hand for each of those tasks. It makes no difference whether the information is organised by folders on a single partition, or by multiple partitions - the heads are still going to have to be jumping around to the different data for the different tasks in different locations on the physical platters. The only way to "keep the heads of the drive closer to the information pertaining to [the] task at hand" would be to have each "task's" data on a separate physical drive - so that unrelated data accesses do no affect that physical drive. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| HD partitioning - need sugestion | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I normally use one partition | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| I see you caught that | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| Source Code | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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