Short Stroking to Improve I/O Performance : A How To Guide....

[SteveO]

Exactly. And penetrating firewalls on a steady basis is advised.

[gabester]

For those not distracted by innuendo and still confused as to what the article means:

1. Limit the portion of the drive used to significantly less than its capacity (e.g. take 10% of a terabyte drive, or 100GB )
2. Ensure that limited capacity is in approximately the same physical space to reduce drive head motion.
3. Enjoy reduced latency, access times, and presumably, drive wear (increasing MTBF).
4. Profit!

I used to do something similar to this with ridiculous hard drive partitioning schemes in the classic Mac OS days - I'd do a small boot partition (200-650MB) for OS files and the rest of the disk for apps; on a separate drive I'd put another small partition for my small content files (email, text docs), with two larger volumes, one for pictures and disk images and another for music and video. Then if I ever wanted to do something FASTER I'd use the speed optimized partitions.
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