Accessing fastest part of a drive

Hi, I'm inferring from my reading that partitions created at the top of the partition window in disk utility are created at the outer edge of the hard drive and will have faster access (more data passing per r?). I haven't actually seen this spelled out it just seems to be assumed. Is this actually the case?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi, I'm inferring from my reading that partitions created at the top of the partition window in disk utility are created at the outer edge of the hard drive and will have faster access (more data passing per r?). I haven't actually seen this spelled out it just seems to be assumed. Is this actually the case?
Hi,
Yes, this is true. The partition at the top of the Disk Utility window will be faster than the lower partition. You can easily measure this effect when performance testing partitioned RAID volumes.
While using just the upper partition can eliminate the slower portion (inner tracks) of the disk(s) I am not sure this is worth the effort. I prefer to use no partition and have access to the entire disk.
Have fun!

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