Inside Seagate Exos 2X18 - MACH.2 features lightning-fast actuators

Seagate MACH.2 is a hard drive technology that uses dual actuators to improve hard drive performance. These dual actuators allow the hard drive to read and write data from two different locations on the disk simultaneously, which increases the amount of data that can be processed at any given time. MACH.2 technology also improves sequential read and write speeds, resulting in faster file transfers and data access times. Seagate says that MACH.2 can offer up to twice the performance of a single-actuator hard drive.

APPLICATIONS:

Best-Fit Applications
Hyperscale applications/cloud data
centers
Massive scale-out data centers
Big data applications
Content delivery networks
Mainstream enterprise external
storage arrays
Distributed file systems, including
Hadoop and Ceph
Enterprise backup and restore—
D2D, virtual tape
Centralized surveillance
High-bandwidth streaming
applications

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