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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ADINSX: Sep 9, 2003; Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

I think some old computers could read data off the edge of the disk faster than the inside and programmers would write optimizations to put all their data right on the edge :c00l:

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ADINSX: Sep 9, 2003; Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

I miss the defrag util in windows

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 17:23

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