Comment by WD-42
16 hours ago
I’m pretty sure spinning HDDs can have rather complex controllers that actually try to optimize access at the block level by minimizing the amount the read head needs to travel. So yea there are some buffers in there.
16 hours ago
I’m pretty sure spinning HDDs can have rather complex controllers that actually try to optimize access at the block level by minimizing the amount the read head needs to travel. So yea there are some buffers in there.
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