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How full is too full for mechanical hard drives?

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Mar 15, 20262655 views
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I have heard many claim that it doesn't matter how full a drive is until it starts cutting into temp and virtual memory space. This doesn't make sense to me, given the nature of how the data is transacted on a hard drive. The inside of the platter presents less data per revolution than the outside …

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You also cannot equate a linear size increase with a linear speed increase, since the circumference of the disk increases quadratically. With respect to cache saturation and real-world testing, most users find a 35% variation in transfer speed from …

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