Disk Drives Explained

CowboyRobot writes "Magnetic disk drives are one of those things I usually take for granted without thinking about, but I recently realized how little I understood about how they really work. ACM Queue has an article from their 'Storage' issue titled, 'You Don't Know Jack About Disks', which does a very good job of explaining exactly how magnetic disks have evolved since the 70s and how they work today."

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[AsnFkr]

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88"

Yea, that is exactly how hard disks *don't* work.

Well...

[mraymer]

I think acmqueue.org just learned something new about hard disks. Namely, that they turn into a pile of warm liquid goo after a severe slashdotting...