Following a trend among some makers of standalone dual disc players, Hewlett-Packard this week will begin offering some of its high-end consumer desktop PCs with dual-format drives for HD DVD and ...
In a nutshell: Ken Shirriff is an IC reverse engineering enthusiast who enjoys restoring vintage computers and devices. While repairing an 8-inch HP floppy drive, the computer historian discovered an ...
Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...