I am trying make my system as efficient as possible. I understand that creating multiple partitions on a single fixed drive and placing the swap file on its own partition can increase efficiencey. My question – I know there are multiple platters within a drive, when information is placed on them, is it placed sequentially (1 platter, then the next) or do the heads start on all platters writing data contiguously (starts writing on beginning of each platter simultaneously so data is close to beginning of all platters where read/write heads are closest)? If it is sequential, from plater to platter, how do I determine where (or what size) my partition should be so that my swap file partition can be at the beginning of the platter, thereby reducing seek time?
