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Haven't we had this discussion before?
I guess you never stated this in a blog though.

Either way, a link to back up your claims:
http://www.barefeats.com/hard35.html

Inner tracks of smaller drives are faster for high RPM drives, but outer tracks of SATA larger drives are faster yet.

I would assume this really depends on the type of fail and access type, but SCSI drives still have their place in the Server Room.

Your OS has to know that it is supposed to write to the outer tracks first... Is Windows capable of this?

I know AIX is, OS/400 is. What about the rest?
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Right, now how...  Arnout Groen | 09/19/06
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hdparm is your friend!  Linux User 147560 | 09/19/06
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Haven't we had this discussion before?  nucrash | 09/19/06
The other issue...  ju1ce | 09/19/06
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So, in other words...  jasonp@... | 09/20/06
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Why a home user would need a...  ju1ce | 09/19/06
I find 10000 RPM is good enough  voska | 09/19/06
You missed the entire point of blog that 10K can be faster than 15K  georgeou | 09/19/06
Great  opensourcepro | 09/19/06
WOT  zedman2006 | 09/19/06
Know one with a brain believe a word that George writes. He is NOT credible  nomorems | 09/19/06
No, stupid. Not know...  badgertale | 09/19/06
No, Kindergarten.  nomorems | 09/20/06
Beyond the typo...  Cayble | 09/20/06
DUHHH  colin@... | 09/19/06
fuzzy math  jreuter | 09/20/06
It's not purely linear, but darn close  georgeou | 09/20/06
Can you really cut the seek time in half?  WFreeze | 09/20/06
Yes, it's pretty close  georgeou | 09/20/06
apples and oranges  init_alx | 09/20/06
When you can't get larger higher-RPM drives, yes I can  georgeou | 09/20/06
Bit-Banging Drives  Xwindowsjunkie | 09/20/06
No, that is the smaller reason  georgeou | 09/23/06
Partition size and clustering  ghost954 | 09/20/06
I don't mess with cluster size too much  georgeou | 09/23/06
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flash HD SSD...  Sxooter_z | 10/02/06
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Half and Quarter stroke  percuno@... | 09/26/06
Half and quarter stroke  t110d93 | 09/26/06
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right..  avianlegends@... | 04/07/07
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