not necessarily. Take for example hard drives. A filesystem optimized for a spin drive will take into account that the needle has to move a physical distance a

not necessarily. Take for example hard drives. A filesystem optimized for a spin drive will take into account that the needle has to move a physical distance and arrange files to minimize the movement of the needle. All that goes out the door when you have an ssd which has a O(1) access to any part of the dardrive