You Don't Know Jack about Disks

  • Authors:
  • Dave Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • Seagate Technologies

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Storage
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Magnetic disk drives have been at the heart of computer systems since the early 1960s. They brought not only a significant advantage in processing performance, but also a new level of complexity for programmers. The three-dimensional geometry of a disk drive replaced the simple, linear, address space tape-based programming model.