Re:HGST gets closer to shipping 10TB HDD
by sitkack on Friday March 13, 2015 @07:32AM
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There is a very interesting engineering optimization strategy at play here, would love to do/see a blog post on it.
Simple structures, with a large safety margin and simple control flow vs complex structures, very light weight but at the limits of capacity.
Like an ethernet switch doesn't need complex flow routing algorithms when the raw backplane bandwidth is some multiplier higher than will ever experience contention.
It always seems to me, that things built near their design limits will eventually expose a catastrophic flaw.
Human engineered items that have stood the test of time, Roman Aqueducts, Brooklyn Bridge, DC3, Dodge Dart, Toyota Corolla, AK47, PDP8 all have commonalities in their design philosophies.
Simple structures, with a large safety margin and simple control flow vs complex structures, very light weight but at the limits of capacity.
Like an ethernet switch doesn't need complex flow routing algorithms when the raw backplane bandwidth is some multiplier higher than will ever experience contention.
It always seems to me, that things built near their design limits will eventually expose a catastrophic flaw.
Human engineered items that have stood the test of time, Roman Aqueducts, Brooklyn Bridge, DC3, Dodge Dart, Toyota Corolla, AK47, PDP8 all have commonalities in their design philosophies.