Introduction to Hard Disk Drives
Learn how hard disk drives function as a primary form of persistent storage, including their operation, data layout, interface standards, and disk scheduling methods that optimize data access.
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The last chapter introduced the general concept of an I/O device and showed you how the OS might interact with such a beast. In this chapter, we dive into more detail about one device in particular: the hard disk drive. These drives have been the main form of persistent ...