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Partitioning scheme to protect long term internal parts? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure this has been ever discussed here.

On a 18tb drive, is there any benefit if i create first partition = 1tb, second 16tb, and last 1tb in order to protect the head from being forced into extremities of the disk? I'm planning to use only the middle one.

I don't remember where i've read something similar about old models, they had failures because of the head skipping over the surface. I know at least when the hdd is full, the head struggles with speed.

Maybe these new multiple platter/head drives write data differently, so my partitioning method wouldn't matter if first partition is written on the first platter and not vertically on the first blocks of all the platters....

Someone more into technical stuff please explain what's best. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Assuming your 18TB drive was manufactured sometime in the past thirty years or so, there's no need. Manually managing the internals of a hard drive pretty much went out of style in the late 1980s.