[geeks] Advice on buying a new Mac

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, John Francini wrote:

> Actually, hard drives went away from a strict concentric sector layout
> years ago. To pack the most sectors in a given space, the surface of
> the hard drive is divided into a number of concentric 'zones'.  All of
> the tracks in a given zone have the same number of sectors.  Each
> zone, however, has a different number of sectors depending on where
> it's located on the disk: outer zones have far more sectors than inner
> zones.  This zoned approach keeps the number of sectors per unit area
> of surface within a narrow range that maximizes data storage.

Aha!  So -that's- what ZBR is.  Thanks!

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