MACH.2 Multi Actuator can significantly increase the performance of hard disk drives, and in conjunction with HAMR technology, we can also count on a large capacity.
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At the end of last year we wrote about Seagate Multi Actuator Technology revolutionary technology, which was to significantly increase the productivity hard drives (HDD). The manufacturer is indeed planning to release such discs, and the first structure announced at the conference OCP US Summit 2018.
Seagate Exos X14 uses MACH.2 Multi Actuator Technology. The manufacturer claims, it uses two independent heads, that allows you to get in 2 times faster read and write (to 480 MB / sec) and twice as many I / O operations per second. Unfortunately, this decision does not affect the less time to access files, here the hard drives will continue to lag behind considerably SSD.
by the way, the manufacturer has promised to improve HAMR technology (Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording), which allows to increase the data density on the plate (and thus save space on your hard disk). The new print head enables us to write / read 3,2 PT data, that should be enough even for professional use. for comparison, in the low-end segment of the head hard drives are designed for performance is not a 2750 TB.
New drives are currently being tested in a number of industrial producer partners. However, we know, that the first copies of their debut on the market in 2019 year, if Mach.2 technology, we expect volume models 14 TB, and in the case of the models up to HAMR 20 TB. But after a year on the market will go model combining both technologies.
