Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:36:22 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:24:58PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:18:44PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > In a drive with multiple platters and therefore multiple heads, you > > could read/write from all heads simultaneously. Or is that how they > > already do it? > > fwih, there was once a drive that did this. the problem is track alignment. > these days, you'd need seperate motors for each head.
I think they now all do it. Haven't you noticed that drives with many platters are always faster than their cousins with fewer platters ? And I don't speak about access time, but about sequential reads.
Willy
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