[geeks] Advice on buying a new Mac

[John Francini]

Perpendicular recording doesn't really change the on-disk sector  
layout; rather, it means that all the bits are "standing up" -- the  
magnetic domains are vertical, with North pointing either towards the  
read/write head or away from it, rather than horizontally.  It  
doesn't change sector layout techniques; it just means there's a  
whole pile more sectors -- and probably a whole bunch more zones --  
on a given drive.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording>

j

On 14 Nov 2006, at 11:02, velociraptor wrote:

> On 11/14/06, John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:
>> The exact storage technique I described is called "zoned-bit  
>> recording".
>>
>> A good description of it is here:
>>
>> <http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/
>> 0,,sid5_gci1019076,00.html>
>
> And don't forget the new stuff--perpendicular recording.
>
> =Nadine=
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