Do fuller harddrives work slower?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Do fuller harddrives work slower?

Is a fuller harddrive slower to use?
	A hard drive with many things on it is just as fast as one with 1 thing.
	If your hard drive has lots of data, it is slower to make your way around it all. It bogs you down.

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Crime on a Dime: Nov 28, 2006

so, we've arrived at Cyber Gravity. the idea that a hard drive with more data will operate slower than one with less. This belief likens data to a physical burden, a peculiar, and quite honestly, flawed concept.

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Crime on a Dime: Nov 28, 2006

akadajet posted:

remember to defrag that poo poo so all the data is sequential.

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