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1) Mechanical Design Factor as we know platter store data & required to spin, actuators
arms carry the read/write heads to move the correct cylinder ,all need extra times .
The most factors affect the performance of the drive are
I. Size & number of platters surface the heavier & larger the platter will slow
down the rotation speed of the spindle because it add more weight for the platter to
spin.
II. Actuator Characteristics the speed of the actuator assembly will affect the seek
time of the hard disk.
III. Spindle Motor Speed & Power affect the platter spin ,faster the motors turns ,the
faster the platters spin, the spindle speed affect the driver’s rotational
latency,position performance & internal transfer rate, the speed of the hard disk is
measured as (Revolutions per minutes)RPM,
modern speed is 4,200rpm to 15,000 rpm & the
common speed is 5,400 to 10,000RMP,
for the SCSI standard they are using 15,000RPM
& IDE/ATA are 5,400 & 7,200 & 10,000RPM.
2) Data Recording & Encoding Factors
I. Recording Density ,Track Density & Areal Density ,recording density also
called bit density meaning number of bits can be placed on the length of track
on a hard disk, track density is number of tracks can be placed across a
radial length of 1 inch ,& it’s unit is track per inch, Areal density is amount of
data that can be store in amount of platter space, & it’s measured by
multiplying bit density & track density(BPSI),the higher areal density equal
to higher transfer rate, the improvement in transfer rate is increase in bit
density not track density ,the meaning of transfer rate is amount of data
being transferred from hard disk to memory in 1 second.
II. Read /write technology hard disk specifications based upon it’s reading ,it’s
spend more time on reading than writing & it’s much faster than writing, the
average seek time for writing than reading is about 1 millisecond ,the virtually
affect on the PC is 10% which pc user don’t realised it.
III. Encoding Method Data recorded on the hard disk surface will affect the speed of
read write, Encoding will also affect the amount of data space to be store on the
hard disk ,a good code increase recording density therefore allow more data to be
store.
IV. Track & Sector Layout
A. Interleaving (go to number 8)
B. Zone Bit Recording the outer track is more than inner track & outer track
is divided more track & sector so it can record more data & have a higher
transfer rate, & that the reason media transfer rate depends on what part of
hard disk being accessed
C. Cylinder & Head Skew help to remove the latency time when switching
from 1 track to another.
D. Sector Format each sector can store 512bytes of data, sector perform store
data ,identify data & save data ,if the data is reduced the sector can be
smaller then can create more sector on platter to save more data.
.I Spindle Speed
.II Area Density is amount of data that can be store in amount of platter space, &
it’s measured by multiplying bit density(bit density meaning number of bits can
be placed on the length of track on a hard disk,)
& track density(BPSI), (number of tracks can be placed across a radial length of
1 inch ,& it’s unit is track per inch)
.III Seek Time is most popular in the system , it’s amount of time for the read/write
head to move between track over the surface of the platters, it’s measure in
milliseconds (“msec” or” ms”)modern seek time is 8 to 10ms ,1 ms is a long time in
electronic terms ,a small reductions in seek time can result in improvements in
overall system performance, in specification seek time refers to reading data,seek
time for writing data is 1 ms longer
.IV Settle Time amount of time required ,after actuator has moved the head
assembly during a seek ,for the head to stabilize sufficiently for the data to
being to be read,it take less than 0.1 msec ,it is dwarfed in importance by seek time
& rotational latency .manufacture don’t brother the settle time they lump it with
seek time.
.V Command Overhead time command given & the respond ,normally it takes0.5ms
.VI Latency after the actuator assembly has completed its seek to the correct track, the
driver must wait for the correct sector to come around to where the read/write heads
are located the time is called latency, latency is related to spindle speed of the
drive, on average ,latency will be half time it takes for a full rotation of the disk,
latency is for multiple ,frequent reads of random sectors on the disk, for reading
large continuous blocks of data ,& first sector of a file.
.VII Access Time hard disk access time is range from 8 to 15ms,
Access Time =Command Overhead Time +Seek Time Settle Time latency
.VIII Data Transfer Rate is the most important in the system .it’s the rate that drive &
controller can send data to the system ,it’s primary depends on the HAD(Hard
Drive Assembly) & secondarily on the controller
.IX Storage capacity numbers of platters * 2 * cylinder*sector*bytes=bytes