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Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
Modern hard drives store an incredible amount of data in a small space, and are still the default choice for high-capacity (though not highest-performance) storage. While hard drives have been around since the 1950s, the current 3.5″ form factor (actually 4″ wide) appeared in the early 1980s. Since then, the capacity…
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Systems & PerformanceHardware & Electronics2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 30, 2026 | Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) by TapamN | 164 | 8 |
| Nov 9, 2019 | Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking by rrampage | 152 | 18 |
| Feb 19, 2024 | Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) by userbinator | 83 | 13 |
