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MACH.2 Multi-Actuator Hard Drives

Double hard drive performance for data-intensive applications.

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What is MACH.2?

Computing power, storage capacities, and storage performance: all must continue moving forward in order for technology innovators to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

As higher areal densities on future hard drives put downward pressure on performance, MACH.2™ multi-actuator technology will more than offset these pressures. That means customers with data-intensive applications will continue to enjoy the highest levels of hard drive performance — including IOPS, throughput, and reduced latency — while they simultaneously keep up with the need to manage ever-increasing quantities of data.

MACH.2 is the world’s first multi-actuator hard drive technology, containing two independent actuators that transfer data concurrently. MACH.2 solves the need for increased performance by enabling parallelism of data flows in and out of a single hard drive. By allowing the data centre host computer to request and receive data from two areas of the drive simultaneously, MACH.2 doubles the IOPS performance of each individual hard drive.

With MACH.2, hyperscale data centres can access performance gains without sacrificing capacity or TCO.