 Hard Disk Drives

Online chapter: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/file-disks.pdf

Chapter 37 of Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and others. Section 37.3 separates seek, rotational delay and transfer time; the later scheduling discussion compares shortest-seek and directional-sweep policies. The parent record supplies the authors and version metadata.