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This avoided the delays involved in having the head(s) [[seek]] to the correct cylinder, and was also mechanically simpler, but did require more components. | This avoided the delays involved in having the head(s) [[seek]] to the correct cylinder, and was also mechanically simpler, but did require more components. | ||
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Revision as of 15:45, 24 September 2017
Fixed-head disks were disks which had a separate head for each track. They were direct descendants of drums, a prior secondary storage technology, which also had a head per track.
This avoided the delays involved in having the head(s) seek to the correct cylinder, and was also mechanically simpler, but did require more components.
The platters of such disks were generally not removable.
