Is it true that defragmenting towards the outer edges of the disc improves pformance?

[Repairnewbie]

If so... how can I do this? If my OS is in drive C, should I move it towards the last part of the disk?

Thankx in advance..

[EzyStvy]

Yes the outer edge of the drive is faster...

But no human being could tell the difference if he or she had to since we talking fractions of nano seconds.

I made the second part up but it sure sounds good

[not important]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy Yes the outer edge of the drive is faster... But no human being could tell the difference if he or she had to since we talking fractions of nano seconds. I made the second part up but it sure sounds good

I'm impressed!

[Repairnewbie]

em... are you sure? I´ve been told the outermost part of the disc its over 6 times faster than the innermost part (in a CD/DVD disc, probably not so much in a HDD cause HDDs have shorter circunference). It made sense cause it needs less spinning of the disc to read the same amount of data.

[glc]

How do you propose moving the OS to the outside of the disk? If you want something better than Windows defrag, get Diskeeper and let it do its own thing automatically.

[Repairnewbie]

Originally Posted by glc How do you propose moving the OS to the outside of the disk?

By creating, lets say, a small partition with my less used data, then a big partition for games (more or less frequently used data, which takes up almost all space), and then a small partition with the OS & most frequently used data.
I think you can do this with partition magic, but its a waste of time if i ain´t getting a noticeable increase in performance.

[EzyStvy]

Originally Posted by Repairnewbie em... are you sure? I´ve been told the outermost part of the disc its over 6 times faster than the innermost part

One second to open MS Word divided by six = you won't notice the difference if MS Word now opens in point something seconds.

[amdalex]

There is no way to make the partition on the inside or outside edge of the disc as far as I know.

[not important]

The OS will be on C: A: is Floppy and B: is reserved. As far as I know you can't make C: the last partition.

[liambl]

Hard drives store data first on the outer edge of the disk anyway, then fill inwards. Thats why in hard drive benchmarks the start or beginning of the drive benches faster than the end.