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SubjectRe: File system compression, not at the block layer
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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