Definition: Stiction


The word is a contraction of Static Friction. It is used when the read/write head sticks to the platter's lubricated coating.




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Command Reordering

A feature that allows the drive to reorder I/O processes in the command queue, which results in minimizing the seek time and rotational latency and thus increases throughput.

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