Alright, so you want to know about hard disk performance. But what exactly does "performance" mean?
MORE ...There was a time when the performance of hard disks was one of the most underrated aspects of overall system performance.
MORE ...As hard disk capacity has reached and then exceeded the various hard disk size barriers, various methods have come about to allow these larger disks to be used.
MORE ...One of the most important techniques used to break the 504 MiB disk size barrier that results from the combination of BIOS and IDE/ATA hard disk restrictions is the use of BIOS translation.
MORE ...One of the most common problems people have with hard disks, especially when trying to add a new hard disk to an older system, is the frustration of finding that not all of the hard disk is actually accessible.
MORE ...The BIOS and operating system play an important role in how your hard disk is used.
MORE ...The operation of your hard disk drives is controlled by the interface from the system to the hard disk itself.
MORE ...Following are the parameters stored in a PC's BIOS setup memory that describe the configuration of the hard disks in the system. SCSI hard disks are usually not identified in the setup memory.
MORE ...For a long time, computers had no early warning system to inform you that your hard drive was damaged or close to failure. All this changed with the addition of S.M.A.R.T., an acronym standing for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. was developed by a number of major hard disk drive manufacturers with a goal of increasing the overall reliability of their drives. This technology enables your PC or computer to predict the failure of your hard drive with overwhelming accuracy. As a result of this accuracy, the S.M.A.R.T. technology has become standard and is used in almost every hard disk drive built today.
MORE ...Why is it that engineers have been able to put 80 gigabyte onto one platter when a 80 gigabyte hard drive was at one time the size of a small car? We need to understand a little about density.
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