Short Stroking to Improve I/O Performance : A How To Guide....

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Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking:

Tom's wrote:
On The Stroke Of Performance: Hard Drive Short Stroking

Flash SSDs dominate the news at present. If you believe the coverage from multiple Internet tech magazines, flash-based devices are about to take over the storage market. They’re perceived as being faster and more efficient than hard drives—and maybe a bit more expensive. The truth is different, though; flash memory still has only a tiny market share for many reasons. The good old hard drive isn’t dead, and we just found another reason for them to live on for a while: short stroking technology.

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