Using Shingled Magnetic Recording HDDs

Limited to sequential writes

By Jean Jacques Maleval | January 14, 2014 at 3:23 pm

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Shingled Magnetic Recording Part 2: Using Shingled Drives
Unlike earlier technologies, such as embedded servo and perpendicular recording, shingle recording changes the basic operation of the disk drive, limiting shingled drives to sequential writes.

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