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Platters
Actually there is more than 1 platter and more than 1 read write head in each hard drive.

I prefer SCSI drives for various reasons, performance being an obvious choice. Reliability being another. IDE/SATA drives cannot map out bad sectors and map good ones in automatically, SCSI can.
Posted by: Troll Hunter   Posted on: 04/26/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Compatability?  yyuko@... | 04/25/06
It's still not solid-state.  Mr. Roboto | 04/25/06
and...  doh123 | 04/25/06
Not as reliable  Yensi717 | 04/26/06
Already been done  wizard_of_oz | 04/28/06
Reliability?!  johnsmith222 | 04/25/06
Overkill?  HypnoToad72 | 04/25/06
Re: Overkill? -- Seriously?  AeroPreacher | 04/25/06
Re: Overkill?  yyuko@... | 04/26/06
Uses  ArthurDent | 04/26/06
Sure the warez guys are salavating.  Been_Done_Before | 04/26/06
AND... Mine's bigger than yours!  DevGuy_z | 04/27/06
About the only use I can see for a home user  Linux User 147560 | 04/25/06
For those of us  Sabz5150 | 04/25/06
The problem with hard drives  Roger Ramjet | 04/26/06
Platters  Troll Hunter | 04/26/06
IDE can remap sectors  DevGuy_z | 04/26/06
Not entirely true  DevGuy_z | 04/27/06

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