Disk Storage

(last updated: 16-May-2015 09:31)
 

Books

  1. The Hard Disk Companion; Peter Norton and Robert Jourdain; Brady Books, 1988.
     
  2. The Hard Disk Companion, Second Edition.
     
  3. Microprocessor-Based Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Hardware Design; Michael Slater, Prentice Hall, 1989.
     
  4. The RAID Book: A Storage System Technology Handbook, Sixth Edition; Paul Massiglia; Peer-to-Peer Communications, 1997; ISBN 1-879936-90-9.
     
  5. The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible; Winn L. Rosch; Brady Books (Simon & Schuster), 1989: 
           -  Chapter 20: "Magnetic and Mass Storage"
       -  Chapter 21: "Floppy Disks"
       -  Chapter 22: "Hard Disks".
  6. The Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible, Fifth Edition; Winn L. Rosch; Que, 1999: 
             Chapter 8: Mass Storage Technology
         Chapter 9: Storage Interfaces
         Chapter 10: Hard Disks
         Chapter 11: Floppy Disks
         CD Appendix G2: Capacity Limits
         CD Appendix H1: Other Disk Interfaces
         CD Appendix J: 5.25-inch Floppy Disks

Periodical Articles

  1. "Disk-Storage Technology", SA 243:2 Aug 1980 pgs 138-148.
     
  2. "Motor in Spindle Gives Micro-Winchester Room for 140M Bytes", Mini-Micro Systems Feb 1983 pgs 143-148.
     
  3. "Rigid-Disk Drives: Capacity, Performance Mount as Size Shrinks", Electronic Design Apr 28 1983 pgs 139-150.
     
  4. "Magnetic Disks: Storage Densities on the Rise", IEEE Spectrum Aug 1983 pgs 32-38.
     
  5. "5-1/4-in. Winchester Disk Drives", EDN 28:17 Aug 18 1983 pgs 118-132.
     
  6. "Hard Disks Boost Capacity While Shrinking Size", CD Apr 1984 pgs 205-218.
     
  7. "Understanding Head-Positioning Systems in Winchester Drives", MMS 17:2 Feb 1984 pgs 237-248.
     
  8. "Half-Height 5-1/4-inch Winchesters Adopt Large-Drive Technology", MMS 17:2 Feb 1984 pgs 267-272.
     
  9. "PCMs Track the Leading Edge of Winchester Technology", DD Apr 1984 pgs 54-64.
     
  10. "Winchester Disk Drives", EDN 29:13 Jun 28 1984 pgs 132-146.
     
  11. "Designer's Guide to Winchester Disk Drives", DD 14:11 Nov 15 1984 pgs 57-70.
     
  12. "Making the Most of 5-1/4" Winchester Drives for Improving System Performance", DD 15:1 Jan 1985 pgs 44-51.
     
  13. "Varied Drive Interfaces Mystify Integrators", MMS 18:2 Feb 1985 pgs 135-144.
     
  14. "Sub-4-in. Winchester Disk Drives", EDN 30:15 Jun 27 1985 pgs 116-122.
     
  15. "The Future of Flexible Disks", DD 15:7 Jul 1985 pgs 63-68.
     
  16. "Options Increase for Effective Use of High-Performance Winchesters", DD 15:9 Sep 1985 pgs 60-68.
     
  17. "Disk-Encoding Schemes", BYTE (special issue on "Inside the IBM PCs") 10:11 Fall 1985 pg 288.
     
  18. "The Evolution of Mass Storage", BYTE 11:5 May 1986 pgs 161-172.
     
  19. "Winchester Disks Reach for a Gigabyte", Spectrum 24:2 Feb 1987 pgs 64-67.
     
  20. "Data-Storage Technologies for Advanced Computing", SA 257:4 Oct 1987 pgs 116-125.
     
  21. "Disk Interfacing Gets Smart", ESD 17:11 Nov 1987 pgs 77-84.
     
  22. "The Big Switch to Little Disks", PCR Jun 1988 pgs 61-63.
     
  23. "Fast Drives for Modern Times", BYTE 13:7 Jul 1988 pgs 118-128.
     
  24. "Removable-Data Technology", PCM 7:15 Sep 13 1988 pgs 216-217.
     
  25. "Hard Disk Interfaces", BYTE 14:2 Feb 1989 pgs 293-297.
     
  26. "Disk Interfaces for the High End", PCTJ 7:2 Feb 1989 pgs 76-86.
     
  27. "The ESDI Hard Disk Alternative", PCM 8:4 Feb 28 1989 pg 152.
     
  28. "Hard Disk Interfaces for PCs and Workstations", MIPS Mar 1989 pgs 97-100.
     
  29. "Choosing and Installing a 3-1/2-inch Drive", PCM 8:8 Apr 25 1989, pgs 119-132.
     
  30. "Choosing a Hard Disk and Controller", PCM 8:9 May 16 1989 pgs 263-275.
     
  31. "What the Hard Disk Drive Numbers Mean", PCM 8:9 May 16 1989 pg 272.
     
  32. "The Hard Disk Marketplace", PCM 8:12 Jun 27 1989 pg 116.
     
  33. "Hard Disk Maintenance Software", BYTE 14:8 Aug 1989 pgs 265-276.
     
  34. "Interleaving: Delivering the Data on Time", BYTE 14:8 Aug 1989 pg 266.
     
  35. "Disk Caching", BYTE 14:10 Oct 1989 pgs 297-301.
     
  36. "Paper, Magnets, and Light", BYTE 14:12 Nov 1989 pgs 391-399.
     
  37. "An Inside Track on High-Capacity Disk Drives", SunExpert Magazine 1:2 Dec 1989 pgs 36-48.
     
  38. "Disk Controllers Standardized With EATA", UW 6:12 Dec 1989 pgs 111- 112.
     
  39. "Adaptive Equalization in Magnetic-Disk Storage Channels", ICM 28:2 Feb 1990 pgs 14-29.
     
  40. "Magnetic Megabits", Spectrum 27:5 May 1990 pgs 32-38.
     
  41. "The Evolution of ESDI", BYTE 15:6 Jun 1990 pgs 297-306.
     
  42. "Megafloppies", BYTE 15:10 Oct 1990 pgs 301-310.
     
  43. "Tutor: Choosing a Hard Disk", PCM 9:18 Oct 30 1990 pgs 427-429.
     
  44. "Massive Storage for Multiple Platforms", BYTE 15:12 Nov 1990 pgs 172-188.
     
  45. "State of the Media", BYTE 15:12 Nov 1990 pgs 275-281.
     
  46. "The Once and Future King", BYTE 15:12 Nov 1990 pgs 301-306.
     
  47. "Getting Your Byte's Worth" (hardware-based data compression), BYTE 15:12 Nov 1990 pgs 331-336.
     
  48. "Strength (and Safety) in Numbers" ("RAID"), BYTE 15:13 Dec 1990 pgs 337-339.
     
  49. "Tutor: Hard Disk Problems (The Effect of Drive Alignment Drift on a Hard Disk)", PCM 10:2 Jan 29 1991 pgs 379-380.
     
  50. "The IDE Hard Disk Drive Interface", BYTE 16:3 Mar 1991 pgs 317-324.
     
  51. "Tutor: Formatting Your Disk", PCM 10:5 Mar 12 1991 pgs 414-415.
     
  52. "Giga-Storage", BYTE 16:5 May 1991 pgs 201-206.
     
  53. "The IDE Interface and The Quest for Better Hard Disk Performance", PCM 10:9 May 14 1991 pgs 379-389.
     
  54. "Tutor: More on Low-Level Formatting", PCM 10:13 Jul 1991 pgs 473-474.
     
  55. "What You Can Do to Overcome Disk Disasters, Part 1", PCM 10:15 Sep 10 1991 pgs 409-415.
     
  56. "What You Can Do to Overcome Disk Disasters, Part 2", PCM 10:16 Sep 24 1991 pgs 385-390.
     
  57. "The Incredible Shrinking Disk", BYTE 16:10 Oct 1991 pgs 255-264.
     
  58. "Choosing and Using Hard Disks", PCM 10:22 Dec 31 1991 pgs 313-331.
     
  59. "EISA ESDI Controllers: The Choice for Power Users", PCM 11:4 Feb 25 1992 pgs 245-266.
     
  60. "Embedded Intelligence", BYTE 17:3 Mar 1992 pgs 195-203.
     
  61. "The Incredible Shrinking Hard Disk (HP Kittyhawk), PCM 11:13 Jul 1992 pg 31.
     
  62. "Enabling Technologies" (HP Kittyhawk), BYTE 17:7 Jul 1992 pg 132.
     
  63. "The New Wave of Removable Storage", BYTE 17:10 Oct 1992 pgs 198-210.
     
  64. "Disk Arrays Explained", BYTE 17:10 Oct 1992 pgs 259-266.
     
  65. "Why You Should Defragment Your Disk", PCM 12:13 Jul 1993 pgs 365-368.
     
  66. "RAID to the Rescue", PCM 12:15 Sep 14 1993 pgs 273-306.
     
  67. "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents", SA 272:1 Jan 1995 pgs 42-47.
     
  68. "Bulletproof Data" (hadware-based RAID systems), PCM 17:18 Oct 1998 pgs 211-223.
     
  69. "Managing Storage Silos", PCM 17:22 Dec 15 1998 IT Outlook pgs 2-19.
     
  70. "Hard Disk Troubles", PCM 17:22 Dec 15 1998 pgs 229-231.
     
  71. "Storage in Your Networked World", PCM 18:8 Apr 20 1999 pgs S2-S7.
     
  72. "Server Storage: Rely on RAID", PCM 18:8 Apr 20 1999 pgs S7-S8.
     
  73. "Network Attached Storage: Plug and Save", PCM 18:8 Apr 20 1999 pgs S12-S13.
     
  74. "Storage Management: Backup and Restore", PCM 18:8 Apr 20 1999 pgs S16-S18.
     
  75. "Hierarchical Storage: Taking it from the Top", PCM 18:8 Apr 20 1999 pgs S20-S23.