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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We can. They have been tried several times. Never found a way to be profitable compared to magnetic technology advances, and then solid state.

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