Re: I remember
One thing that hasn't changed since then, or at least since the 1990s, is spindle speeds. If anything, the average spindle speed has got slower because the 10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives have been mostly replaced with ssds.
This means that reading or writing one track of data takes the same time now as it did then, but there are a lot more tracks on each platter, so reading or writing an entire platter takes a lot longer.
Sure, there is more data on each track, so data transfer speed is faster, but it is only increasing by the square root of the increase in data.
There are also more platters in a drive, that increases capacity as well, and does increase speed by the same amount.
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