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Seagate’s new Mach.2 is the world’s fastest conventional hard drive

The key to Mach.2’s increased performance is a second set of actuator arms, which can be positioned independently from the first set. Essentially, this makes a Mach.2 “two drives in one chassis.” (credit: Seagate) Seagate has been working on dual-actuator hard drives—drives with two arms and read/write heads per platter—for several years. Its first production […]