On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:
>
> > What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk?
>
> Sequentially. Disks run an order of magnitude faster if they
> have sequential data. Don't get too fancy with the ordering
> since the disk driver will just reorder it for you.
Also, lots of disks no longer seem to write individual
sectors, but instead read/write whole tracks at a time.
(and then the whole sector thing becomes moot)
regards,
Rik
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