Back in the day... Mainframe computers had fixed-head head-per-track hard drives. It has always baffled me as to why we haven't re-explored that option. I'm not an engineer, but it seems it would speed up access times. It might also help to give each (x-number) head its own cache.
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Back in the day... Mainframe computers had fixed-head head-per-track hard drives. It has always baffled me as to why we haven't re-explored that option. I'm not an engineer, but it seems it would speed up access times. It might also help to give each (x-number) head its own cache.