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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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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

 full drives work faster, if x% of the capacity is used there's a x% chance that your data is under the head already, so when you issue the request "give me my data" a 100% full drive can always just immediately start giving it to you.

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