Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high
transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people
still use cheap, spacious mechanical hard drives. Unfortunately,
mechanical hard drives also constitute one of the most
significant performance bottlenecks in modern computer systems.
Even when paired with the fastest processors and lots of memory,
a slow hard drive will drag down the a system's overall
performance and responsiveness, which is why upgrading to an SSD
usually yields such significant performance gains. If upgrading
to a solid-state drive isn't the cards for you right no, you can
improve the performance of your hard drive through a technique
colloquially known as "short stroking." In simple terms, short
stroking a drive means partitioning it so as to use its highest-
performing sectors. Hard drives perform differently depending on
where data is stored on their platters. Knowing where the
fastest sections of the drive are and partitioning the drive to
take advantage of them