Mark Knecht wrote: > While none of this directly applicable to what you are experiencing, >when I read your note it seemed similar enough to go ahead and write >back. It might not only be the type of files system, but also where on >the drive you are writing. It's not always that well known, but most >drives are 30-50% slower at the far end of the drive. Most drives are >speed rated when they are empty. > > Without knowing anything about the details of hard drive conception, I would think that ALL drives are much slower for tracks near the axe than on the border of the disks, since the speed is proportional to the distance track->axe. This is inherent to any system using a disk and having constant angular speed. I know that even windows 95 tried to put the data on the borders of the disks of an hard drive as long as it could. I am pretty sure linux does the same. cheers, David
