Oracle Replication With Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) Disk Drives White Paper
White Papers These solutions include the introduction of an entirely new class of disk drive technology - the Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives. This white paper provides performance reference information for the new FATA disk drive as a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Graceful Operation Of Disk Drives Under Thermal Emergencies
White Papers Thermal-aware design of disk-drives is an important concern because high temperatures can cause reliability problems. A delay-based approach to adjust the disk seek activities is one DTM solution for normal disk-drives.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Disk Subsystem Performance Evaluation: From Disk Drives To Storage Area Networks
White Papers Disk subsystems span the range of configuration complexity from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer systems or configured as larger, shared access Storage Area Networks (SANs).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Why 7200 RPM Mobile Hard Disk Drives?
White Papers The 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive now makes it possible to achieve true desktop performance and in many cases exceed performance of some existing desktop platforms. This paper informs the benefits of RPM Mobile Hard Disk Drive.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Fast PCs: Can Disk Drives Keep Up?
News Serial ATA, the new interface standard for fast-talking disk drives, received a considerable boost this week. The Serial ATA Working Group has published a draft of the 1.0 specification for the new interface for disk drives -- ranging from hard...
[December 20, 2000, 9:30]
Test Your Knowledge On Implementing, Managing, And Troubleshooting Windows XP Disk Drives And Volumes
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from Que/Sams' MCSE Windows XP Professional Practice Questions Exam Cram 2 (Exam 70-270) tests your knowledge concerning the implementation, management, and troubleshooting of disk drives and volumes in Windows XP.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Multiple Robust Track-Following Controller Design In Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper presents a new technique for track-following control in hard disk drives, in order to achieve high tracking precision of magnetic read-write heads uniformly for a huge number of disk drives.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Technological Impact Of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives On Storage Systems
White Papers Magnetic hard disk drives have undergone vast technological improvements since their introduction as storage devices over 45 years ago, and these improvements have had a marked influence on how disk drives are applied and what they can do.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Quantum Leap Within Hard Disk Drives
White Papers Lots of very serious specialized service centres performing data recovery refuse to work with drives if their head-and-disk assembly has been opened; others multiply the cost of their work. This paper provides a brief architecture description, the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Exploring The Popularity Of Mobile Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper focuses on the features that make 2.5" Mobile hard disk drives in such great demand, and highlights the exceptional qualities of the Fujitsu MHV series that have made the company a dominant player in the Mobile industry.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drives For Mobile Applications: Hornet-15L
White Papers Fujitsu has developed the Hornet series of 2.5-inch compact hard disk drives (HDDs). These drives are suitable for use in mobile applications such as notebook personal computers. This paper introduces the Hornet-15L (MHR2xxx) drives, which is...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Backup Appliance Composed Of High-Capacity Disk Drives
White Papers Disk drives are now available with capacity and price per capacity comparable to (and in some cases better than) nearline tape systems. This paper outlines the potential advantages of a backup system composed of high-capacity disk drives and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems And Vibration Compensation In Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Papers The second is the instrumentation of disk drive suspensions with vibration sensing strain gages, in order to enhance airflow-induced suspension vibration suppression in hard disk drives. This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Wavelength Disk Drives
White Papers Wavelength disk drives (WDD) is a novel new concept to address the inter-processor communication issues of distributed computing networks often referred to as grids or peer to peer computing. The implications of this concept on telecommunications...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Suspension Vibration Compensation Using A MEMS Microactuator In Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper discusses the design and fabrication of a prototype MEMS microactuator and vibration sensors, and controller design for suspension vibration compensation in disk drives. The microactuator utilizes parallel-plates actuation and comb...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Short-Span Seeking Control For Dual-Stage Servomechanism In Hard Disk Drives
White Papers The dual-stage servomechanism is proposed to support ultra-high track density in hard disk drives. Narrower track width will cause the seeking operation to occur within several tracks much frequently.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Maxtor Shock Protection System In The Atlas Disk Drives
White Papers The ability of enterprise class disk drives to withstand high shock levels is becoming increasingly important as the use of hot-swap disk drives in RAID based, rack-mount systems grows. Hot-plug technology enables disk drives and PCI cards to be...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Modular Design And Technological Innovation: The Case Of The Hard Disk Drives
White Papers The hard disk drive industry has been under great cost pressures. An area worth exploring is the design of the hard drives to further reduce the costs. Manufacturing has achieved very high levels of efficiencies and there is hardly any room for...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Thermal Stability Evaluation Of MEMS Microactuator For Hard Disk Drives
White Papers Advances in hard disk drives have created a need for MEMS actuator to achieve high bandwidth of tracking servo and fine positioning of magnetic head. Thermal stability under operational conditions is one of the critical requirements for the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Next Generation Mobile Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This whitepaper focuses on the uses and features of SATA Extended Duty Mobile 2.5" hard disk drives in high-density applications in which power, performance and capacity features are a priority. This evolution has occurred in the Hard Disk Drive...
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