[Tfug] AV drives

[Bexley Hall]

Hi,

Years ago, A/V drives were essentially regular
drives with the periodic recalibration less
frequent (since that effectively busies out the
drive while it is in progress) and less aggressive
error correction (i.e., better to return "bad"
data EARLY than "good" data *late*!)

These issues made "regular" drives problematic
for streaming data at high continuous rates
without introducing "blemishes" into the video
stream, etc.

I'm not sure how (if at all) this may have
changed in recent times  :<

So, the question is, how suitable are A/V drives
for use as "regular" drives?  I.e., *do* they still
report "bad" data early (and, do they do so in a way
that the OS can attempt to recover the data?)

Thx,
--don


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