That might not work given that the drive might have more than one platter.  You&#x27;d probably want to know how many heads the drive has to determine how to stripe it in the most inconvenient way possible.  I think going beginning to middle on a single platter and back for each file would be the best way to get the worst performance for each file.  That&#x27;ll make sure it has to seek for each subsequent block and it can&#x27;t inadvertently get read-ahead since it has to back track all the time, and the separation should be far enough that it won&#x27;t get it on the in order blocks either.<p>EDIT:
Just realized that I don&#x27;t think this can be done through normal means.  I think it&#x27;d need a pathological FAT file system driver to do it, and you&#x27;d have to build the image ahead of time to do it.