![]() ![]() The best way to achieve this would be to create seperate partitions, thus restricting where the files can physically go, similar to a technique called Short Stroking. Nevertheless, there may be something to gain in storing infrequently accessed files on the slow end of your drive. Disabling them would probably negate the performance benefits you are aiming for. Defragmentation tools already do a reasonable job at moving files around to increase performance, and could easily undo your manual efforts. On all but the most basic file systems, that would be quite a lot of tedious work and very uncommon outside the context of data recovery. You can write movies to the physical end of your hard drive that way and manually update the file system. On Windows, you'll have to rely on third-party software. On Unix-based systems, the command dd is usually available for that. There are plenty of tools with direct disk access that will allow you to write raw data to the disk.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |