On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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- probably about the worst value it could be.
Hm.... what about those first 62 sectors?
If I'm understanding correctly, then the drive will *always* have to
start at the 63rd sector, then swing back round and start reading a
1st sector, for every read larger than 1 byte.
This will result in a minimum of one extra rotation of the disk's
platter for every read, and instead of reading larger data
contiguously the effect will be like a *completely*, least-optimally
fragmented filesystem.
I may be mistaken on this - if that's the case I would love to be
corrected.
The results shown by Valmor & Mark are *two orders of magnitude
faster* when the partitions are correctly aligned.
Stroller.
