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The last three suggestions
in this area will help you to improve the performance of your hard drive. In
reading or writing information to your hard drive, the single slowest
operation is moving the read/write arm to the track on your hard drive that
contains the data you are working with. By minimizing the distance that this
read/write arm must move, you can improve the performance of your hard drive.
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The first recommendations is
to keep all of your active partitions together near the front of your hard
drive and to place any seldom used partitions at the end of the hard drive.
In this example, you’ll see that the active APPS and DATA partitions are at
opposite ends of the hard drive with a less used BKUP partition between them.
When you run an application, you read it from your APPS partition and then to
work on the data file for that application you read it from the DATA
partition. The read/write arm must continually travel over the less used BKUP
partition.
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Notice, by placing the APPS
and DATA partitions near the beginning of the drive and putting the BKUP
partition near the end of the drive, the distance the read/write head must
travel is reduced, thus improving drive performance.
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