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Disk Drives Explained

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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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  1. Text by Pinguu · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

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  2. Re:This is a great paper. by orkysoft · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)

    Too bad you can't spell superior...

    The rest of your post is quite trollish as well. It's usually quite easy to determine whether the other person knows anything about computers, and to make a solid guess whether they know what SCSI is without actually asking about it.

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.