Re: r/w speed inner vs outer tracks

[Tamer Embaby <tsemba@menanet.net>]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alfred Breull wrote:

> So,which is more quick: r/w from inner tracks or from outer tracks ?

Quote from:

http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm.html

" The outer tracks spin faster under the head than do the inner
ones, because while the angular speed remains the same, the
larger circumference results in more sectors spinning by in
the same period for the outer tracks. Disk blocks are numbered
starting at the outermost track. "

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