Thanks for the hard drive technical review.

I have a question regarding spindle speed vs areal density.

Is it true that the maximum data rate read from the platter to the buffer (and visa versa) by a single read head, is proportional to SPINDLE SPEED x LINEAR TRACK DENSITY.

So potentially the figure of performance for a disk drive is SPINDLE SPEED x SQUARE ROOT(AREAL DENSITY).

In another words: A disk with twice the spindle speed is twice as good as the same disk with double the areal density instead.


COOL.