Seagate wants to revolutionize hard drives with multi technology

Mechanical hard drives have been in a delicate position for a few years, users demand not only high capacity but high speed, so SSDs are increasingly popular, especially since high capacity models are offered at quite reasonable prices. affordable. This could change with Seagate Multi-Actuator technology.

Seagate will double the speed of hard drives with Multi-Actuator

Mechanical hard drives do not stop increasing their capacity to meet one of the demands of users, despite this the speed is maintained and this is a problem, increasing the capacity without improving the speed makes it more expensive to access the data quickly. Seagate promises to fix this with Multi-Actuator technology that will hit the business first.

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In today's hard drives the actuator is the component that moves the read and write head across the surface of the platters, current hard drives only have one of these actuators so it is in charge of all the reading operations and writing. With Seagate's Multi-Actuator technology each hard drive half will act independently, doubling the potential in IOPS operations.

This technology is not a new idea, but if it is increasingly feasible as hard drives increase in capacity, the new Seagate drives that implement it will continue to have a 3.5-inch format and will continue to be “plug-and- play ” so there will be no changes to its ease of use.

Thanks to Multi-Actuator it is promised to increase the parallelism of hard drives allowing to achieve a much higher performance than current disks, in theory it should allow to double the performance so that with a single disk the level of a RAID 0 could be reached in today. Combined with HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology, Seagate will be able to deliver performance and capacity improvements with next-generation hard drives.

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