This paper by Rodney Van Meter about ZCAV (Zoned Constant Angular Velocity) in hard drives is very interesting. It predates my work by about four years and includes some interesting methods of coll…| etbe - Russell Coker
I just lent two 80G IDE drives to a friend, and he re-paid me with 160G drives. Generally I don’t mind people repaying hardware loans with better gear (much better than repaying with the same…| etbe - Russell Coker
I was in a discussion about flash on a closed mailing list, so I’ll post my comments here. I believe that flash will soon be suitable for main storage on most desktop and laptop machines (whi…| etbe - Russell Coker
On a closed mailing list someone wrote: 2 X 120gb ide drives installed as slaves on each ide channels. … Presto. A 230’ish GB storage NAS for all my junk. I’m not going to write a…| etbe - Russell Coker
Eweek has an article on a new 1TB Seagate drive. Most home users don’t have a need for 1TB of storage (the only way I’ve ever filled a 300G drive is by using it for multiple backups) an…| etbe - Russell Coker
