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jggimi wrote: Instead, the best performance was to set them at the center section of the platters. This minimized seek time.
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I think this is still in use. I would say from top to center and not a step beyond, especially for the SWAP on todays HDD's. It explains those numbers I just posted above. Notice that I only went a fraction over the dividing line with 100GB (the middle with 500GB being the middle of a 1000GB HDD). Dd'ing partition-2 seems like it brought performance darn near to a halt, bringing down the good zone with it. By just now reading jggimi post, it's a match in more places than a few ...
This is where you should place your lightly accessed data.
Great info jggimi