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Seagate has unveiled its new Multi Actuator technology, a breakthrough that can double the data performance of its future-generation hard drives in hyperscale data centers. With two actuators, a hard drive can double its performance while maintaining the same capacity as that of a single actuator drive.
An actuator is the component that moves a hard drive’s heads over the media surface, to read and write data. In its first generation, Seagate’s Multi Actuator technology will equip hard drives with dual actuators (two actuators). With two actuators operating on a single pivot point, each actuator will control half of the drive’s arms. Half the drive’s recording heads will operate together as a unit, while the other half will operate independently as a separate unit.
An actuator is the component that moves a hard drive’s heads over the media surface, to read and write data. In its first generation, Seagate’s Multi Actuator technology will equip hard drives with dual actuators (two actuators). With two actuators operating on a single pivot point, each actuator will control half of the drive’s arms. Half the drive’s recording heads will operate together as a unit, while the other half will operate independently as a separate unit.