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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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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
windows 95 introduced TRIM which is about pubes

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

akadajet posted:

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

surely not

is a shuffled deck of cards heavier than a unshuffled deck all other factors being the same

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Tunicate posted:

yes, by about 10^-14 grams per terabyte

is a hard drive ever empty ??? isn’t it always 100% full of information even if it’s noise/garbage/zeros?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

The Management posted:

a magnetic disk is never empty.
flash media is “full” when it’s erased. writing frees trapped electrons so it gets lighter.

:hmmyes:


so flash media is a whore for electrons but we want to introduce it to christ

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