New Seagate disk tech could drive down the cost of high-capacity HDDs – Techradar

Seagate
has been working on a cleverly tweaked version of its conventional hard disk drives (HDD
) that not just improves speeds, but might also be cheaper to produce.
Dubbed Mach.2, the new tech gets its name from the fact that these drives use two actuators instead of one, which helps significantly improve both the sequential and random read/write speeds.
Seagate recently announced its first dual-actuator disk, the Mach.2 Exos 2X14
, which according to the official spec sheet offers a sustained…

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