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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Buck Turgidson: Feb 6, 2011; 𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬

akadajet posted:

is a full hard drive heavier than an empty hard drive?

little munchkin posted:

an empty harddrive is full of zeros (big and round), but a hard drive with a bunch of files will have a bunch of ones, which will take up less space, op

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Buck Turgidson: Feb 6, 2011; 𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬

If you think about the original hard drive, chiseled stone, it would get lighter as you stored more data on it.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2023 09:09

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