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honey the codewitch13-Sep-19 16:24
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That's actually a smart way to do it in any case - even if you had the space on one disk.

The reason is, as long as the floppy controller supported it, you could have both spindles working at once, and so you don't have as much I/O lag.

The same principle applies in modern databases and is why good database design will partition frequently accessed tables onto their own HD "spindles" - either physical spindles, or just logical like with an SSD - point is, you read from more than one drive at once.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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