On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:28, you wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 10:20 AM, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > > > perform best), > > > > What impact do you believe partitioning has on disk performance? I > > can think of none. > > Disks have an internal block size that is the minimum they can read > and write. The partitioning information at the start of the disk can > start your partitions on a non-block boundary. Every "write" > operation of a block becomes the "read" of two blocks, mask in the > data to be written, then a "write" of two blocks.
Utterly false. Partitioning occurs in units of sectors, not bytes or any unit smaller than the 512-byte block that is the addressable unit of all modern hard drives. > Chris Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
