On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:46:59AM -0700, AAAunderground wrote: > > The reasoning I follow is this. If we take the example of a record > > (as in LP, vinyl), a point in the outside moves faster relative to a > > point closer to the center. If hard drives were vinyl LPs, I would want > > That was the case with older drives. But definately all new drives have > a design built into them that allow the drive to spin at the same speed > thoughout the platter. Unfortunatly I can not think of the name of the > technology that allows this right now. It is the same thing that is used > in cdroms for the same purpose. So to answer the question , no it > doesn't matter on a performance or accesibility level where you store > crucial files. Bzzzzt! Download bonnie++ from http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/. Compile it. You will have a program called 'zcav'. Run that on your harddrive and you will see how the speed is the greatest at the [logical] beginning of the disk and goes down toward the end. For instance my IBM scsi goes from 9.4 to 6.7 and the Maxtor IDE goes from 15.8 to 10.9 . florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect"