About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Chapters: Hard disk drives, RAID, Seek time, Hard disk platter, Disk read-and-write head, ST-506, ZFS, Standard RAID levels, S.M.A.R.T., Early IBM disk storage, Nested RAID levels, Core International, Inc, Non-standard RAID levels, History of hard disk drives, Microdrive, Hybrid drive, Fabrik Inc., Fault-tolerant system, Mdadm, Hardcard, Advanced Format, Parity bit, Cylinder-head-sector, Hitachi Deskstar, Disk compression, FlexRAID, Hard-disk failure, Hard Disk 20, Castlewood Orb Drive, Quantum Bigfoot, Iomega Jaz drive, Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools, Disk mirroring, Disk buffer, Intel Rapid Storage Technology, Data striping, Forensic disk controller, Page cache, List of defunct hard disk manufacturers, Hard Disk 20SC, Bad sector, RDX Technology, Spin-up, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes, Geom raid5, Head crash, Iomega REV, Massive array of idle disks, IT8212, Lt. Kernal, Apple ProFile, HP Kittyhawk microdrive, Active hard-drive protection, Seagate SeaShield, SyQuest EZ 135 Drive, F6 disk, SyQuest SparQ drive, Cylinder 1024, Disk array, ZFS+, Predictive failure analysis, Servowriter, Amiga Rigid Disk Block, Power-up in standby, Flying height, RAID processing unit, Internal hard-drive defect management, Embedded servo, The binary effect, High density storage media, Parity Drive, Rawdisk, Spindle, Write precompensation, IVDR, FATA, Av drive, Disk Data Format, Spinup cycles. Excerpt: A hard disk drive (HDD; also hard drive or hard disk) is a non-volatile, random access digital data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the platters. Introduced by IBM in 1956, hard disk drives have decreased in cost and physical size over the years while dramat...
