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Did disk drives get much faster over the last 10 years?
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Mar 15, 2026383 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I wonder how fast the disks were in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010... I seem now able to make a whopping 80MB per second, although random access time is pretty awful still. Is the speed of drives still improving much? I remember having speeds of 3 or 4MB per second on my previous AMD 3000+ 160GB, while my …
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There a several independent components to "disk speed": interface speed, seek time, rotational latency and bit/track density. KCotreau's answer has listed the improvements in interface speed. Note that there is a widespread misconception that interf…
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