CS615 System Administration, Week 02, Segment 4 - Physical Disk Structure
Channel: cs615asa
Date: 2021-02-05

In this video, we'll take a quick look at what a hard disk drive actually looks like. This will help us understand the underlying addressing schemes such as CHS and LBA as well as what physical aspects affect hard disk performance as well as partitioning requirements.

Slides for this lecture: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/02-physical-disk-structure.pdf
Course Website: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/

Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Physical components of a hard drive
04:12 Zone Bit Recording
04:57 Hard Drive Performance
06:27 Capacity
10:44 Summary