Hard drive partitioning

[nofuture]

I wan't to partition my HDD acording to how many plates it has. Does anyone know how to do this?
I recon that should help to boost performance, and make search time shorter. No more need to spread one files of same program on diferent physical disks. Its just my logic.
Any thoughts about that?

Note From Moderator: Moved to it's own thread.

[dorin]

now you made me courious!
will search for a solution, if you find one please post it here!

thanks,

dorin

[carbon_unit]

I would think that spreading it out over more disk would improve performance. With one head on each side of each platter you could read both sides of a platter simultaneously without moving the heads. I think reading 16 head simultaneously on different platters would be faster than 1 or 2 heads moving around to read it all from one platter. IMHO.

[jdhurst]

I doubt that you could partition the way you want (but I admit I do not know). That said, my guess is that hard drive performance benefits enough from faster rotational speeds and cache that you wouldn't see much from special partioning.

AS/400's were well known for fragmenting data all over the place because of many, many heads in large raid systems to improve performance with many simultaneous users. That did work and one would never defrag an AS/400 system. But this is quite different from a PC with a single drive.
... JD Hurst