Partial-stroking / Short-stroking / Half-stroking Hard Drives?
- by Daniel Magliola
Could anyone here explain to me what is implied by this term? (I've seen the same thing mentioned with the 3 terms).
At first when I read about it, for some reason I understood that it was some way of splitting the bytes across the platters of the disk, which sounded like a good idea and obviously doesn't make sense, because that wouldn't cut disk size in half (and disk are probably already splitting bytes across platters)...
The best I've come to understand is that basically instead of creating one partition for the whole size of the disk, you create 2 partitions, and use only one of them, either the one in the "center" or the one in the "rim" of the platters, and since one of the two is faster (people didn't seem to agree on which one was faster), that makes everything better.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Has anyone tried this with their drives and had a good outcome?
Thanks!
