On Fri, May 1 at 14:19, Miles Nordin wrote:
Secondly I'm not sure I buy the USENIX claim that you can limp along
less one head. The last failed drive I took apart, was indeed failed
on just one head, but it had scraped all the rust off the platter
(down to glass! it was really glass!), and the
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
On Fri, May 1 at 11:44, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Hard drives are comprised of multiple platters, with typically an
independently navigated head on each side.
This is a gap in your assumptions I believe.
The headstack is a single physical entity, so al
> "edm" == Eric D Mudama writes:
>> Hard drives are comprised of multiple platters, with typically
>> an independently navigated head on each side.
edm> This is a gap in your assumptions I believe.
edm> The headstack is a single physical entity, so all heads move
edm> in
On Fri, May 1 at 11:44, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Hard drives are comprised of multiple platters, with typically an
independently navigated head on each side.
This is a gap in your assumptions I believe.
The headstack is a single physical entity, so all heads move in unison
to the same position
This morning as I was reading USENIX conference summaries which
suggested that maybe SATA/SAS is not an optimimum interface for SSDs
it came to mind that some out-of-the-box thinking is needed for hard
drives as well. Hard drive storage densities have been increasing
dramatically so that lates
