[GTALUG] "Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry through Microbenchmarking"

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 10:55:24AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> This goes quite deeply into HDD geometry.  Probably a waste of time for 
> most people, but I found it facinating.
> 
> <http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/>

That is pretty neat.  I didn't know cylinders no longer ligned up,
or that track moves were now faster than head changes.  That's unexpected.

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Len Sorensen