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Re: Partition size for new drive and other disk defrag options
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Ex. I have a Western Digital 500GB Black drive. That thing has dual processors in it. Why you might ask? Well, better performance. The reason being that two processors can read, write, and manage data faster than a single processor. Also these black drives have a park zone for the reading arms, they never touch the platters (Longer life), and they have a 64mb cache. They also come with a five year warranty. Those are fast drives and I have not had one problem with it. Check them out. You can get anywhere between a 500GB-2TB drive in the Black line. Also, data is fragmented as soon as it hits the drive. Mac or PC. It doesn't matter until you get a NAND Based Drive (SSD in other words). Because if spits out data, it is therefore "fragmented" and stays put. That is why they have to "Defrag" the drive in the first place. SSD's won't have this problem, but will have a problem erasing data, reason why Windows 7 has "TRIM", where it will erase the cells in the SSD, and report to the OS that there is space open on this drive. Without this (or some variation of this if you don't have W7), The cells would fill up, not get erased, and reduce performance greatly. There is a lot of tech in storage than what it seems. I stay on tech sites and forums a lot (including Anandtech.com, which can get really technical).
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