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I wonder if it's feasible to make many sets of platters share a single set of heads? Similar to tape, but once the heads are mounted to a specific set of platt
by ahupp 5y ago
I wonder if it's feasible to make many sets of platters share a single set of heads? Similar to tape, but once the heads are mounted to a specific set of platters you get disk-like latency. Keeping the environment inside the drive clean (or filled with helium) seems like the challenge.
- mikewarot 5y agoLoading/unloading the heads when moving to the next platter would be the dangerous/slow part. It's easier to keep all the heads flying, and move them in parallel.