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Re:Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenc... by HPsquared on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:21AM (#39439630)
Dual channel is a thing, I suppose. Probably similar for hard drives: multiple heads, there might be some micro-trickery to align things just right.
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Re:Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenc... by jorticka on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:06AM (#39441425)
I wasn't talking about dual channel, but something else. There are a number of ways to map linear memory space to multiple individual memory chips.
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