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My understanding was that they were using variable-sized tracks. It's
possible I'm wrong though, sure as hell won't be the first time (even today).
In a message dated 12/5/02 10:09:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> In feet per second, the outside does move faster. But in bits per second,
> the outer-most track moves at the same speed as the inner-most track. I
> don't believe PC hard drives have begun formatting drives with
> variable-sized tracks yet. All tracks have the same amount of data.
> Mainframe drives have used variable track size since the 70's.
>
> Kent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Sigstroker@xxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT] New pc - Question
>
>
> No, it will be faster. The larger the capacity and less you use of it
> percentage-wise the faster it is. The reason is your disk is written from
> the
> outside tracks first. The outside travels faster than the inside (in feet
> per
> second).
>
> In a message dated 12/4/02 12:32:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > SO far happy, but my question is this, this is no way I will have more
> than
> > 10
> > gig used on my 60 gig hard drive, I wanted a smaller one, but they dont
> make
> > smaller ones anymore, does having all the extra free space on the HD
mean
> it
> > will be slower writing up down to the drive...50 GB free...is that a
> > limitation
> > ?
>
>
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