Does partition 1 start on the outside of a HDD platter?

[Staples]

I have always been under the impression that Partition 1 starts on the outside of the disk and works its way inward. If the whole partition takes up a whole platter, the partition then extends onto the outter regions of the next platter. The seek time should be faster on the outside of the platter vs the inside so I have always made partition 1 rather small in hopes of isolating an outer region and a partition with the fastest seek times possible.

Is this notion even true? And if so, is this the way it works with all HDDs?

 

[oldbrave]

Yes, that notion is true and that's the way it works on drives that use a circular track system. A lot of larger drives use a perpendicular track system that read and write going from the outer edges to the center like spokes on a wheel.

 

[Tolyngee]

I would think one would only need to look at the graph of a HDs tranfer rate benchmark across the entire drive to realize how it's using the disk?

 

[zorobabel]

I don't think HDD benchmarking cares about partitions. But I also believe that partitions start from the outside (if set at the begining of the HDD) regardless of the number of platters.