As traditional hard drives get denser, their performance gets lower.
Then, Seagate is to release a dual-actuator drive which is the first such drive in 25 years.
In this post, we will walk you through this Seagate dual-actuator hard drive for data centers.
However, the increased capacity of HDDs causes a problem for data centers.
Western Digital will release large storage size hard drive whose capacity can reach up to 20TB.
And this Western Digital 20TB HDD will take MAMR technology.
With two actuators operating on a single pivot point, each actuator will control half of the drives arms.
Seagate has developed the MACH.2 technology and showcased it recently.
With this technology, the hard drive speed can reach up to 480 MB/s.
In 1994, Conner Peripherals marketed Chinook brand drives with dual actuators.
However, vibration issues and higher failure rates appeared since the drive provided two drive heads per platter surface.
But now, the MACH.2 design of Seagate dual-actuator HDD for data centers conforms to the 3.5 form factor.
