Try this one for a different explanation that I believe describes current disks:
<http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_disk_sector_structures.htm>
'Zoned recording' is the important difference.
/dev/md1: Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.01 seconds = 45.18 MB/sec
The figures above are for the outside of the disk, those below for the inside.
/dev/md4: Timing buffered disk reads: 98 MB in 3.01 seconds = 32.56 MB/sec
Cheers, Dave
Thanks for clearing that up. I think my mistake was thinking that the 1st track was in the inner part of the disk. Appears they now start from the outside and move in. Very interesting, and my apologies
for being old :D
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