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"In 2004, the head flying height was equivalent to a Boeing 747 airliner flying at 0.05 cm above the ground and travelling at 92 Km/h (7200 RPM drive)
by sbierwagen 16y ago
"In 2004, the head flying height was equivalent to a
Boeing 747 airliner flying at 0.05 cm above the ground
and travelling at 92 Km/h (7200 RPM drive)." That was
in 2004. What would that translate into these days?
The... same? At least, if you're using a 7200 RPM drive, but 10k and 15k drives existed in 2004 as well.
Bit density has increased dramatically over the last six years, but rotational speed has remained constant, thanks to so some hard physical limits; and now that SSDs are no longer a howling black hole of suck on a dollar/GB basis, we won't see any more breakthroughs done with mechanical hard drives. Solid state drives are just better.