From reading the description, it really just appears to the OS as two
drives in one housing.
Tony Thigpen
John McKown wrote on 12/20/2017 08:08 AM:
It's not really a drum, but it is getting closer. Of course, for true
speed, one should go SSD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/19/seagate_disk_drive_multi_actuator/
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Seagate is increasing IO performance in disk drives by separating
read-write heads into two separate sets which can operate independently and
in parallel.
The heads are positioned at one end of actuator arms which rotate around a
post at their other end to move the heads across the platter surfaces.
Thus, with an eight-platter drive, each read-write head is positioned above
the same cylindrical track on each platter and reads or writes to and from
the same disk blocks on each platter's surface.
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