[Sluglug] Re: Hard drive access optimization

[Thomas Leavitt]

... aren't there advantages, in terms of access speed, to having all the
data towards the inside of the disk (heads don't have to move as
far?)... I always thought that was the primary reason a defragger moved
everything to the "front" part of a partition. ...and one of the reasons
that people pay lots of money for high performance SCSI drives and then
stripe data across them, but don't fill them up....

Thomas