Question about disc partitions

[silver-surfer]

When you create a partition on a disc can you specify where it’s located?

I read somewhere on the Internet that the fastest part of a mechanical HDD is the area closest to the spindle. So, in theory if I took a 500 Gb drive and created, for example, a 150 Gb partition into which I loaded my operating system and placed it close to the spindle I would get the optimum start-up speed for my computer or am I just getting confused?

[KenB]

I have not heard this - not to say that it is not possible.

 

I doubt though that if you could specify the location on the disk that you would notice the difference in start-up speed.