Origin of "partition" in storage devices

[Fred Cisin]

>> Covering more distance in the same time means increased speed to me!

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>> Clearly, on a disk, the outer tracks ARE moving faster, in terms of linear 
>> velocity.

If the data is written at a constant data transfer rate, and the motion of 
the disk is the same when reading as for writing, then the data transfer 
rate in unaffected.

With CAV, the physical width of the bits is larger on the outer tracks, 
where the linear velocity is higher.