very same question. Is the behavior you are describing above
manufacturer dependent or it is pretty much dictated by the general
design of modern drives?
the latter. the industry keyword is Zone Bit Recording, which
simply tries to record data as densely as possible - determined
by linear
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
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Also, 'dd performance' varies between the start of a disk and the end.
Typically you get better performance at the start of the disk so dd
might not be a very good benchmark here.
Hi,
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I was actually planning to ask this
very