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I love it when people explain their hypotheses - it makes
it so much easier to understand why two people can
apparently contradict each other and still be right.
Presumably the argument for putting the data at the
outside edge (could still be) correct once you've decided
that you're only going to use a quarter of the disc space
anyway.
Jonathan Lewis
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Date: 14 September 2001 18:43
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|AIX has a unique concept of this.
|
|Given data spread on a disk. The head will spend more time over the
| middle tracks as it seeks data that is distributed across the disk.
|
|Thus for faster access, place your tablespace on the middle tracks
|of a disk because the probability that the head will be over it is
|much greater.
|
|Learned this with Syabase on AIX. It may still hold true today.
|I don't know. Technology had advanced a lot from those day. (But I
think the
|laws of physics are the same ;-))
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|Stealing a quote from: Optimal Storage Configuration Made Easy,
|By Juan Loaiza, Oracle Corporation
|
|"The transfer rate for a disk drive is not the same for all portions
of a
|disk.
|The outer sectors of a disk drive move by the disk head faster than
the
|inner sections
|leading to a faster transfer rate for the outer sectors. This is
simply
|because
|of the circular shape of a disk drive."
|
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