Seagate plans to introduce Multi-Actuator technology to speed up future hard drives

[WYP]

Increasing HDD capacities is only half the battle.



Read more on Seagate's Multi-Actuator HDD technology.

 

[NeverBackDown]

That's actually a pretty cool gif...

 

[CreatiXx]

I wonder about the pricing of these drives

 

[WYP]

I wonder about the pricing of these drives

This tech will come to the enterprise markets first and trickle down. Don't expect it on your average hard disk anytime soon.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Sounds like they are introducing more points of failure in the new drives.

 

[ByteMyAscii]

Anything on the same half won't be read or written any faster.
So any claim of doubling is only under ideal circumstances and in real use is going to be only under carefully crafted arrangement of the data.
Potential improvements, but I see it being way less than advertised in reality.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Unless the firmware wrote everything stripped on the drive. That way the heads would be reading as a RAID for everything to get the in theory performance boost.

 

[ByteMyAscii]

Unless the firmware wrote everything stripped on the drive. That way the heads would be reading as a RAID for everything to get the in theory performance boost.

Yes, that is a good point.
Though is going to be far more variable on random rather than sequential reads or writes.
I still think capacity and price is what will keep mechanical drives relevant.