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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mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

does it matter with modern indexing and solid state storage

also isn't it always a little faster to have data on the edge of spinning rust? the edge is always going to be moving fastest

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