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Introduction to Hard Disk Drives

Introduction to Hard Disk Drives

This lesson presents an introduction to this chapter on hard disks.

We'll cover the following...

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 ...