Fast mechanical HDD with clever Partitioning.

[Roland0]

Hello peeps,

I remember seeing a post that explained that you could do something along the lines of partition a disk. So that only the very edge of the drive was used, in order to get very fast read/write speeds, and reduced access times obviously at the cost of space. However it wasn't just partitioning, as it needed special software from the HDD vendor. However I can't find or remeber anything aout it or how its done


I would be getting an SSD but since the decent ones are the best part of £200 and the single platter 500GB drives are less that £40 its seems like im bets of waiting for SSDs to come down in price.

Cheers

 

[Roland0]

Hello again,

Do we have any objective evidence that short stroking and partitioning are the same or different in performance? i can't really see how partitioning can be all that different, unless somehow the controller not knowing that the majority of the disc isnt usable speeds it up.