Good morning everybody!
Recently I've moved away from Arch Linux [It died after an update ;-) ] in favor of FreeBSD on my desktop. As in my habit, I've become interested into speeding up stuff
When reading "man tuning", I have found a following passage:
Quote:
When using bsdlabel(8) or sysinstall(8) to lay out your file systems on a
hard disk it is important to remember that hard drives can transfer data
much more quickly from outer tracks than they can from inner tracks.
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On the other hand, I remember advice from an Arch wiki:
Quote:
The partition layout can influence the system's performance. Sectors at the beginning of the drive (closer to the center of the disk) are faster than those at the end.
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So...
Who is right?
I'm pretty lame in physics... If anyone would be so nice to explain it for me in a trivial way, I'll be very grateful