Expected the TFA to have any detail about read/write speeds - something that one would expect about a HDD (not a lame suitcase analogy).
Higher densities on platters often resulted in slower IO speeds as the heads proved not to be that precise in deciding whether a bit was set or not and so
ends up in verifying the data using some ECC type mechanisms. May be the real motivation is to say that disk is the new tape.
Expected the TFA to have any detail about read/write speeds - something that one would expect about a HDD (not a lame suitcase analogy). Higher densities on platters often resulted in slower IO speeds as the heads proved not to be that precise in deciding whether a bit was set or not and so ends up in verifying the data using some ECC type mechanisms. May be the real motivation is to say that disk is the new tape.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/state_web_winter/tumblr2.jpg is no longer a joke then..