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> Partitioning off a small section of the drive feels very 160 GB SCSI "Let's only use the outer sectors".

In that it was very reliable at accomplishing the goal?




Short stroking bigger disks for higher IOPS and storage speed was a de-facto method in some HPC centers. Do this to a sufficiently large array and you can see unbelievable IOPS numbers for that generation of hardware.




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