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From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does partitioning speed up access time?
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Date: 23 Jan 90 19:42:03 GMT
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In article <4653.25acd701@uwovax.uwo.ca> 23031_676@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
.I recently bought a Nec PowerMate 286, 10 mhz, with a Priam drive. Access speed
.is supposed to be about 30 but is actually 50 with data thruput about 650. The
.disc is not partitioned; it is 42 mb. I asked the service magager of the dealer
.if the speed of access would be improved by partitioning as 30/12, and he has
.denied it. Does anybody know whether he is wrong? ...

Bob Gibson (of SpinRite fame (did I get that right?)) once wrote in
InfoWorld that he partioned his 18 ms drive into five partitions,
giving an average access time of less than 4 ms.  ha ha ha ha ha ha
But seriously folks, the average seek time of part of a drive (a
partition) will be less than that of a whole drive.
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steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett