Database Physical Medium

| Apr 17, 2025 min read

1. HDD

  1. Watch a video of what a spinning HDD looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojGvHDjHPb4
  2. Watch a nice deep dive but still at a high level of the science and engineering at play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteUW2sL7bc
  3. Watch a really thourough deep dive on HDD. It’s similar to the last but has more detail on multiple areas. whereas the previous one was better with intuition

2. Databases

  1. Good higher level overview of how the Physical connects with Database connepts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbxddGtHl70
  2. More detailed view of the units and organization that these hard drives use. It follows an Oriely book and its images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haz2h7_xFDk