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> Proportionally, how much slower is it? 50%? 25%? 12%?
> less than 1% slower?
> Does it really matter?

For things like /, /tmp or primary swap even a few % can
make a difference (especially on newer drives that use 
variable sector allocation).  This is something the system
hits frequently with quite a bit of data.

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