I guess I always assumed all the heads were independent data streams, they were just forced to move physically in parallel. You’re right that reading or writin

I guess I always assumed all the heads were independent data streams, they were just forced to move physically in parallel. You’re right that reading or writing the data in parallel across multiple platters might make more sense since the heads are always locked together anyway. I have no idea how it actually works. That had never occurred to me.