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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by 11chris11 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:49PM (#16991327)
have there been any drives designed with an array of fixed read / write heads i.e. one per track or a head that can access multiple tracks on a platter simultaniously?
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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by krallja on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:02PM (#16991914)
There have been a few. Here’s an older article https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hdd-harddrive,8279...
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