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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: fuzzy disks, Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 19:19:55 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>Stephen Fuld [2025-05-26 11:16:25] wrote:
>> https://www.seagate.com/innovation/multi-actuator-hard-drives/
>
>Hmmm, hard to believe it makes commercial sense: if you need higher
>performance, when would this be price-competitive with an SSD?
>
>Also, that page is very light on details, but the image they include
>suggests the two actuators are used on separate platters, so it's akin
>to cramming a 2-disk-RAID0 into a single HDD enclosure.

The data sheet says it is in effect two 7TB disks in a single enclosure.

It seems to have come and gone.  Nobody has them new, refurbished are
$150 - $200 on eBay.  An SSD of similar size is in the $2000 range so
it would have made sense for a data warehouse.



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