> 2. Scattering files all over the partition makes the longest seek times. Yes but it isn't guaranteed that there will be less fragmentation on a windows file

> 2. Scattering files all over the partition makes the longest seek times. Yes but it isn't guaranteed that there will be less fragmentation on a windows file system. It depends on when was the last defrag, on the way file are created, and your disk occupation. Also, when you scatter files on different disks it can be more efficient because you can read several cluster simultaneously. But I guess Windows does this as well.