De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!

[Markku Kolkka]

Mike McCarty kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 22. 
maaliskuuta 2006 10:52):
> Track to track spacing is the same all across the disc.
True.
> And 
> there are the same number of sectors per track as well.
This hasn't been true for at least 10 years. All modern hard 
drives use Zone Bit Recording 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_bit_recording)

This means data transfer speed is nearly 2x higher on the outer 
tracks of the disc. See the "Sequential Transfer Rates" table of 
this test of 250GB drives: 
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_3.html

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi