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In feet per second, the outside does move faster. But in bits per second,
the outer-most track moves at the same speed as the inner-most track. I
don't believe PC hard drives have begun formatting drives with
variable-sized tracks yet. All tracks have the same amount of data.
Mainframe drives have used variable track size since the 70's.
Kent
----- Original Message -----
From: <Sigstroker@xxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] New pc - Question
No, it will be faster. The larger the capacity and less you use of it
percentage-wise the faster it is. The reason is your disk is written from
the
outside tracks first. The outside travels faster than the inside (in feet
per
second).
In a message dated 12/4/02 12:32:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> SO far happy, but my question is this, this is no way I will have more
than
> 10
> gig used on my 60 gig hard drive, I wanted a smaller one, but they dont
make
> smaller ones anymore, does having all the extra free space on the HD mean
it
> will be slower writing up down to the drive...50 GB free...is that a
> limitation
> ?
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