[aclug-L] Re: Slow drive sections

["Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that the proper answer to this argument is along the lines of:

* It depends.

and

* Use your best judgment.

Here is some reading that may enlight everybody though:

The ZCAV program which I initially released as a separate package tests 
the performance of different zones of a hard drive. It does not write 
any data (so you can use it on full file systems). It can show why 
comparing the speed of Windows at the start of a hard drive to Linux at 
the end of the hard drive (typical dual-boot scenario) isn't a valid 
comparison.

http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/zcav/

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Arnold Cavazos, Jr.             abcjr@xxxxxxxxx


On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:34:44PM -0600, Carl D Cravens wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> > speed of access, related to seek time.
> > on an average, sectors located near the spindle are faster to access
> > than sectors located near the outer edge.
> 
> Why is this the case?  I don't see anything in the physical construction
> of the drive that would cause access to sectors at the edge of the disk to
> be slower than access near the spindle.  Especially at any noticeable
> level.
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