On Tuesday 30 October 2007 11:20, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:09:17 Ken Schneider wrote:
You don't have to be an engineer to realize you can't perform write operations to two different partitions at the same time on the same disk.
Not that this discussion has anything to do with engineering, but I say you do have to be an engineer to realize that. A hard drive has multiple read/write heads, and while it might not be currently possible, there is certainly nothing that says in future, they can perform I/O operations independently from each other. Perhaps they even can today, I don't know. There is most definitely no law of physics preventing it
I anxiously await the day this hideous business of rotating magnetic media is relegated to the last entry in a low row of museum exhibits. Check out this article from Tom's Hardware Guide: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/118/ Most interesting is the third slide from the sequence starting at http://www.tgdaily.com/picturegalleries/gallery-20070926.html. It's still very expensive, but once that comes down by a factor of 10, I'll be saying goodbye to the conventional disk drive forever.
Anders
Randall Schulz