"Seeking Hard Disk Drive Latency" - The latest installment in my column at TV Technology (http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/80556) discussed the issues with disk drive latency, how latency is calculated and briefly highlights the history of the HDD.
by Karl Paulsen, 05.05.2009 -- The year 1956 marked the beginning of an era that would dynamically and dramatically alter the landscape of technology forever. It was in San Jose, Calif., where the first hard disk drive (HDD), called the IBM 350, was invented by a group of by IBM scientists under the direction of Reynold Johnson. The 350 HDD would accompany the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) computer and had a total capacity of five million 7-bit characters. A single head assembly with two heads accessed all 50 24-inch diameter platters, and the average access time was just under one second.
Be sure to look up other articles in the Infrastructure Section at http://www.tvtechnology.com/ under the features column 'Media Server Technologies'.
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