Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a ...

If you buy a hard disk from eBay or a reseller, there’s always the chance of getting a used hard disk. Or perhaps you’ve ...

I have two hard drives (neither of which are my boot disk, so I have more than that, really). Windows XP Pro SP1, by the way, and the disks are attached to a Promise IDE card.I recently wanted to ...

I spent some time researching the options for hdparm, to see what optimisations I could make to my disk. In the end I managed:hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 -m16 -X68 /dev/hdaAnd my specs are:P3-700Abit ...

In part two of a two-part series, we look at sustained data rates in hard disk drive (HDD) specs, SATA versus SAS, drive security, and how HDD makers pack density into products by shingling.