On Tuesday 30 October 2007 11:20, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:09:17 Ken Schneider wrote: > > You don't have to be an engineer to realize you can't perform write > > operations to two different partitions at the same time on the same > > disk. > > Not that this discussion has anything to do with engineering, but I > say you do have to be an engineer to realize that. A hard drive has > multiple read/write heads, and while it might not be currently > possible, there is certainly nothing that says in future, they can > perform I/O operations independently from each other. Perhaps they > even can today, I don't know. There is most definitely no law of > physics preventing it
I anxiously await the day this hideous business of rotating magnetic media is relegated to the last entry in a low row of museum exhibits. Check out this article from Tom's Hardware Guide: <http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/118/> Most interesting is the third slide from the sequence starting at <http://www.tgdaily.com/picturegalleries/gallery-20070926.html>. It's still very expensive, but once that comes down by a factor of 10, I'll be saying goodbye to the conventional disk drive forever. > Anders Randall Schulz
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