If you have several disks, splitting load onto separate spindles is an effective way of making reads and writes faster because the largest component of disk latency is the seek time.

如果有多个磁盘，那么把负载分配到不同的磁盘上是加快读写速度的有效方法，因为磁盘延迟的最大组成部分是寻道时间。

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As a general rule, data that is written toward its center has faster seek times than data written on the outer edge.

作为一般规则，靠近中央的数据要比靠近外边缘的数据具有更快的寻道时间。

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Superficially, the WD S25 appears similarly to the VelociRaptor, but it has much faster read and write seek times at 3.6 ms and 4.2 ms respectively.

WD S25硬盘与发烧级别的VelociRaptor产品有几分类似，不过前者的读写速度更快，其读取/写入寻道时间分别只有3.6ms和4.2ms。

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