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On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> the disk spins at the same rotational rpm ... its the "same" speed
But when converted to linear speed, the outside is moving faster than
the inside. This is why most bicycles you see have w
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> > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a
> moot point
> > as such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
>
> remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives
> are 8MB cache
>
>
> - the 2MB disk cache will be flooded and not used at all...
>
>
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Alvin Oga, 2003-Mar-31 17:03 -0800:
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> hi ya
Greetings
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeff wrote:
>
> > I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on
> > the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD. I've been trying to
> > get a definitive answer on this and it's still n
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
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> I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as
> such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives are 8MB cache
drives spin at say 7200rpm
ie .138ms per revolu
hi ya oki
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Oki DZ wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > - less moving of the heads is generally faster as it takes too long
> > to move the head relative to just reading data
>
> How long is exactly to move the head from outside to the ce
I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as
such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
Matt
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> From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:35 AM
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> Subject: Partitioning for Speed
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> - less moving of the heads is generally faster as it takes too long
> to move the head relative to just reading data
How long is exactly to move the head from outside to the center?
Long ago, I tinkered with moving the swap partitio
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:17:05PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on
> the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD. I've been trying to
> get a definitive answer on this and it's still not clear to me.
>
> 1. What part of the HDD is
hi ya
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeff wrote:
> I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on
> the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD. I've been trying to
> get a definitive answer on this and it's still not clear to me.
the disk spins at the same rotational rpm
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