Seagate MACH.2 Technology offers double the IOPS when compared with traditional HDDs. While still being a 7200rpm drive, the MACH.2 uses two actuators and reading heads instead of one. The newly announced Seagate Exos 2X14 offers 14TB of capacity and a maximum sustained transfer speed of 524MBps that rivals some SSD drives. The pricing and availability of the drive are unknown yet. Disc manufacturer Seagate has been researching and promoting the Multi Actuator Technology (MACH.2) for years and while its main goal is to speed up the IOPS performance and read/write speeds, the company also found out the MACH.2 design also cuts down test time and therefore reduces costs. Seagate MACH.2 Drives The Seagate drives equipped with the MACH.2 technology are standard 7200rpm spinning drives, but instead of one actuator, they incorporate two. An actuator is a component that moves a hard drive’s heads over the media surface, to read and write data. Each recording head sits at the end of a moving actuator arm. Hard drives today are equipped with a single actuator, which moves all the read-write heads together in synchronous motion. This design, according to Seagate, can double the IOPS (input/output operations per second) performance of the drive, because both actuators can move independently. Seagate recently disclosed the specs of its new drive with the MACH.2 technology – the Seagate Exos 2X14 offers 14TB capacity and a maximum sustained transfer speed of 524MBps. This kind of speed actually already rivals some traditional SATA SSD drives. The drive...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 7 June, 2021