Seagate has been working on dual-actuator hard drives—drives with two independently controlled sets of read/write heads—for several years. Its first production dual-actuator drive, the Mach.2, is now ...

Seagate reportedly reveals more about why they used dual actuator drives. It was noted that hard drives became faster for three reasons, command queuing, increased spindle speeds, and integration of ...

Thanks to some engineering wizardry involving existing technologies, Seagate has introduced a new line of hard disk drives that can match the throughput of a solid state drive. The drives are part of ...

Seagate has at last got around to listing the first products featuring its Mach.2 multi-actuator HDD technology. HEXUS first covered this "performance breakthrough" technology back in December 2017, ...

Bottom line: Seagate has finally shared more information about its Mach.2-based Exos 2X14 hard drives, which feature multi-actuator technology to significantly boost performance. By using two ...

Seagate has created a HDD with transfer speeds to rival SATA-based solid state drives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But still, ...

Seagate has just released its Q2 2023 financials, and it shared a selection of slides about its storage technology plans among the materials published for investors. In particular, we were interested ...

Panasas will allow customers to use multi-actuator HDDs from January when it launches the capability in the new version of its PanFS file system software. Multi-actuator HDDs support in PanFS version ...

Seagate has finally unveiled the specifications on its upcoming dual actuator hard drives. The Mach.2 drive family will be introduced with the Mach.2 Exos 2X14. The hard drive offers 14TB of capacity ...

The old Winchester 5 MB (!) hard disks had 8 inch platters and were the size of a clothes washer. When they became obsolete, an enterprising individual found a good use for very flat steel disks. With ...