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To: Moonman62
"...data stored on the outer tracks is very fast.."

Makes sense but I thought that all tracks had the same number of sectors, each with a fixed capacity. 

38 posted on 09/22/2009 6:29:44 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

That used to be true, but with zoned bit recording and logical block addressing there are more sectors are on the outer tracks.


40 posted on 09/22/2009 8:03:51 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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