Seagate's New Mach.2 is the fastest conventional hard drive in the world

Seagate's New Mach.2 is the fastest conventional hard drive in the world

 

 Seagate has worked on a dual-actuator hard drive with two sets of reading/write heads that are controlled independently - for several years. The first dual-actuator drive production, Mach.2, now "is available to choose customers," which means that the company can buy it directly from Seagate, but the end-user is not lucky for now.

Seagate includes a sustainable, sequential transfer rate from Mach.2 as up to 524Mbps - easily doubling the "normal" rust disk and creep into the SATA SSD region. The performance advantage extends to the I / O region as well, with 304 IOPs read / 384 IOPs writes and only 4.16 ms of average latency. (Normal hard drives tend to 100/150 IOPS and around the same average latency.)

Additional performance requires additional power; Drive Mach.2 is assessed for 7.2 w unemployed, while the Seagate standard Ironwolf line is rated at 5 w unemployed. It becomes more difficult to compare power consumption that is loaded because Seagate Mach.2 specifications differ from Ironwolf. Power consumption Mach.2 is explicitly ranked several randomized I / O scenarios, while the Ironwolf line is assessed for "average operating power," which is not defined in the datasheet.

However, if we assume - it may not be unreasonable - expansion of the same power consumption when under load, MACH.2 is an excellent choice for power efficiency because it offers around 200% of traditional drive performance that competes for around 144% of the Power budget. Especially the conscious users will also be able to use Power balance Seagate mode - even though these features reduce sequential performance by 50% and random performance by 10%.

According to Seagate Senior VP Business and Marketing Jeff Fochtman, the company has sent MACH2 HDD in volume since 2019, supplying it to more than a dozen major corporate customers with a dual-actuator program. The broader release is expanding a potential customer base to enter customers "select" other Seagate.