Does the amount of available free disk space in Windows (XP only?) impact performance?
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I remember reading that when the available free disk space falls below 10% of the total disk space on the computer, performance is degraded. If true, can someone explain this in more depth than what the commenter on this page provides?
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For hard disk drives, the performance may reduce as the drive fills up for two main reasons: The outer tracks provide faster data transfer than the inner tracks. The outer tracks should tend to be filled up by the OS first, so over time the data tra…
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