couldn’t we increase the performance of hard disk drives by adding more read/write arms?

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instead of waiting for a full revolution for the data to come back around, multiple arms can get to data much more quickly. Also, more arms means more read/write speed..

..right?

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The technology you’re referring to is called a *multi-actuator hard disk drive* and they already exist. Seagate’s Mach.2 and Exos 2X use the technology.

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