Continuing with this evil top posting..... Your analogy is largely obsolete, as drive manufactures took steps to utilize the the surface uniformly years ago.
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 16:30, Yan-Fa Li wrote: > Think of an old fashioned 78RPM record player. The disc spins at a > constant speed, 78RPM. The outer part of the disc is moving faster than > the inner part, but the time the head has to read and write is the same > regardless of where you are on the disc. Therefore the inner part gets > data faster because it has to spin much less to read the same amount of > data assuming all the tracks hold exactly the same amount. > > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Please excuse my ignorance, but I'm not sure what you mean by the inner > > parts having greater areal density. I thought that tracks near the > > outside of the disk had more sectors so that the lineal density was > > comparable to that on the inner portions of the disk. Wouldn't that also > > make the areal density comparable? > > > > Thanks again for all the useful advice on building RAID arrays. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- ______Jsa_________ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
