SeagateTechnology is one of the largest hard drive manufacturers on the planet. As of today, it is registered in the Cayman Islands and has its main headquarters in Scotts Valley (California). Going into a little more detail, tell you that was founded back in 1979 by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner, who left the company in early 1985. After all this time, the company has managed to make its hard drives present in servers, desktops, laptops, and even game consoles like Microsoft's Xbox.
Due precisely to the fact that Seagate is one of the companies that is betting the most on the continuous development of HDD hard drives, either due to problems with their products in the SSD field or due to other types of interests, it is not surprising that they have engineers working in new technologies capable of making HDD hard drives are still as attractive as before despite its different problems in the face of the newest technologies that little by little are imposing themselves on the market.
Seagate promises much faster HDD drives thanks to its new technology
As Seagate itself has announced, a team of its engineers has managed to develop the technology that they themselves have baptized as multi-actuator, which, apparently, would be able to double the speed of HDD hard drives. This technology would be as simple, and at the same time complex to develop, as adding a new actuator to the hard disk with which to get the performance of the unit multiplied by two.
To clarify this issue a bit more, tell you that the actuator as such in a hard disk HDD is the in charge of moving the heads of the hard disk in reading and writing tasks. The great difference of this type of hard disk compared to the traditional ones is that the current ones only have a single actuator that is in charge of moving all the heads.
Multi Actuator will equip hard drives with double actuators per unit
According to the press release officially published by Seagate, it seems that the first generation of HDD hard drives equipped with Multi Actuator technology will feature two actuators operating on a single pivot, each controlling half of the variator arms. In this way we could say that half of the unit's recording heads work together while the other half will work completely independently.
With this, according to the own data offered by the American company, your HDD hard drives can double their performance and speed while maintaining unchanged capacity. This can be so thanks to the fact that each unit will now have the ability to execute multiple operations at the same time, which means, as you may be thinking, that the work to be done is done much faster.
Seagate will continue to develop its new dual actuator technology
As commented James borden, current Product Strategist Manager within Seagate:
Our multi-actuator solution is based on proven technology and conforms to today's standards, so it will be plugged in and installed in today's infrastructure.
Without a doubt this is a great solution to all the problems that would arise in future Seagate developments. We have to take into account that the company had planned to launch HDD hard drives up to 40TB by 2023, date in which the company's HDD hard drives destined for the domestic sector should be able to offer a maximum capacity of up to 12 TB.
This is the direction that the company had set itself and, as expected, when it was made public, many were the detractors who launched the voice claiming that handling such a large amount of data with current technology would entail a long waiting time. Now we know that, these times will be reduced by half only in the first generation of HDD hard drives with Multi Actuator technology, time that will surely be reduced as this technology develops even more.