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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
That's not the case anymore. Cylinder boundaries are an artificial construct in modern hard drives. Modern access modes in disk firmware (and as supported by your OS) obfuscate physical geometry.
I've cloned dozens (hundreds?) of times and not yet had a problem, including booting off the cloned drive many times.
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Another case of modern computing losing the plot, then
Despite all the buffering in the world, the physical geometry of a moving head HDD does have an impact on performance.