Hard disks *do* get slower with use

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Partitioning

Actually, I'd suggest something a bit different from the "load your common apps first" approach. I'd partition the disk and put the system and application in the inner partition, as close as possible to the hub.

At the outside, where transfer rates are highest, I'd locate the swap partition. You may hope to never hit it, but when you do it can bring your system to its knees so it's best to make it fast.

Just inside of the swap is where I'd locate my data. A good defragmenter should (no bets, though) keep the files with the most recent atime "first" on the disk on the LRU theory: what's been most recently accessed is most likely to be accessed soon.

The resaon for this is that applications are read-once and then cached in memory, while data files are generally accessed over and over.

General note: rotational latency is pretty much independent of the track zone, and rotational latency tends to have a greater impact on file access times than transfer rate does, so we're talking about relatively minor differences here.

Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 04/10/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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