On 9 Mar 2019, Kai Krakow spake thusly: >> I used the same harddrives for bcache, plain HDD and plain SSD >> (though different partitions). > > Partitions in the upper half of the HDD can be easily up to 30% > slower. That's an underestimate. One newish disk I have here has 190MiB/s at the start of the disk and only 70MiB/s at the end.