I could be of but I am sure the outter track contains the same number of sectors. The advantage of writing to the outter portion of the hard drive is that the surface for each bit is greater. Becasue the surface area is greater it is less likely to get scrambled. Jeff Smith Sevem Gems Enterprises -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan A. Zdziarski [mailto:jonzat_private] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:48 PM To: aussieat_private; forensics listserv; cfidat_private Subject: RE: Where is the data written? While much of a disk's behavior (interleave, etc) is operating system specific, the outermost track is where sector 0 resides, and the innermost track is where the disk ends. The reason for this is because there are more sectors on the outer track, so reads will be faster at the outer track (since hard drives are fixed-speed and not variable-speed like CDROMs). I'm not entirely sure if there are any major differences between IDE and SCSI layouts, but I wouldn't think so. Same technology inside. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Ausdenmoore [mailto:aussieat_private] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:11 PM To: forensics listserv; cfidat_private Subject: Where is the data written? Not directly related to these lists, or forensics per se, but a curious trivia type question from a class I'm assisting with a FLETC, and I don't have the answer - When data is written to a media, does the storage start at the outside of the platter and work it's way in, or start at the innermost area of the media and work it's way out? Is there a reference floppys and HDD's? SCSI vs. IDE? Or is it based on manufactuer's perference? TIA aus Dave Ausdenmoore | 1000 Sycamore St. Rm 110 | "The future Masters of Technology Cincinnati, Oh 45202 | will have to be 513.946.6688(office) | lighthearted and intelligent. 513.470.0986(cellular) | The Machine easily masters 513.269.1336(pager) | the grim and the dumb." daussieat_private (personal)| -- Marshall McLuhan, 1969 aussieat_private (business) ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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