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This article is from the storage FAQ part1, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions by others.

6.3 Magnetic

    This area moves WAY too fast for me to keep up with all of the
products and announcements; ideally, it should teach enough about
principles and other information sources to allow users to find the
information they need.

Quantum has a good educational web site, with info on the history and
technology of disk drives, at
http://www.quantum.com/src/storage_basics/toc.html.

A lot of spec sheets for recent disk drives (when they say they also
have "old drives", they mean early 90s, not 50s-80s) is available at
http://www.blue-planet.com/tech/index.html.  Looks like a good site.
    

 

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