On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:28, you wrote:

On Dec 4, 2007 10:20 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:

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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote:

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Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives perform best),

What impact do you believe partitioning has on disk performance? I can think of none.

Disks have an internal block size that is the minimum they can read and write. The partitioning information at the start of the disk can start your partitions on a non-block boundary. Every "write" operation of a block becomes the "read" of two blocks, mask in the data to be written, then a "write" of two blocks.

Utterly false. Partitioning occurs in units of sectors, not bytes or any unit smaller than the 512-byte block that is the addressable unit of all modern hard drives.

Chris

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