Re:Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003)
by serpentor on Sunday November 08, 2015 @09:36PM
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So I guess the disk platters used a glass substrate, coated in a layer of magnetic medium?
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Re:Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003)
by porsupah on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:27PM
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Indeed so.
http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/storagesig/media/docs/...
'The drive, a 7,200RPM Deskstar 75GB drive, was released on 15 March last year [2000]. At the time, the press release announced excitedly that the drive was "the first IBM drive to use glass disk platters instead of aluminium ... allowing the recording head to read smaller bits of information that are packed more closely together. In addition, glass disks are more stable at higher speeds".'