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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Dijkstracula: Mar 18, 2003; You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!

this question has different answers based on what you mean by the "thing" in "finding something", various layers of the operating system, file system, and HDD controller either come into play or don't depending

Dijkstracula fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jun 21, 2023

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