Magnetic Information Storage Technology: A Volume in the Electromagnetism Series

By Shan X. Wang, Alex Taratorin, Alex M. Taratorin

This text explains how hard disk drives operate, how billions of bytes of digital information are stored and accessed, and where the technology is going. In particular, the book emphasizes the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0127345701
• ISBN13: 9780127345703
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of magnetic recording for the engineer.

Wang and Taratorin present the best technical overview of magnetic recording I have seen to date. What I found especially valuable is the extensive discussion of both the characteristics and measurement of the principal non-linearities impacting magnetic recording. These include such things as non-linear transition shift, hard-easy transition shift, MR assymetries, and self erasure. The books focus is on the recording/playback processes, but also includes a reasonable introduction to coding and partial response channel design. For readers who want more details on the codes used historically, Mee and Daniel's works are better.