thermalpaste
Senior member
Imagine if we could have an inbuilt striping RAID on a hard disk.......here's the idea:
IF we could have 2 voice coil motors diagonally opposite to each other with 2 independent shafts* moving on the same platter on the hard-disk. Now the shafts are placed diagonally opposite to each other, so they DO NOT foul with each other. They work independantly and yet they co-operate with each other. One writes the data on top of the platter and the other below the platter. Wouldn't this significantly improve the read-write/access times of the hard disks?
Another (not at all economical) way is to have a fixed shaft without a voil coil motor actuating the shaft........
Imagine if we place many heads consectutively next to each other along the radius of the hard disk(from the innermost track to the outermost track. A switching device can be used to activate the appropriate heads when retrieving appropriate data. Because the heads are fixed over a sturdy non-mobile shaft, the hard-disk will be much more sturdier and shold increase the MTBF of the HDD.......
This should be possible right?
*shaft=arm where the head is connected and the fixed end is riveted/screwed to the actuator.....
IF we could have 2 voice coil motors diagonally opposite to each other with 2 independent shafts* moving on the same platter on the hard-disk. Now the shafts are placed diagonally opposite to each other, so they DO NOT foul with each other. They work independantly and yet they co-operate with each other. One writes the data on top of the platter and the other below the platter. Wouldn't this significantly improve the read-write/access times of the hard disks?
Another (not at all economical) way is to have a fixed shaft without a voil coil motor actuating the shaft........
Imagine if we place many heads consectutively next to each other along the radius of the hard disk(from the innermost track to the outermost track. A switching device can be used to activate the appropriate heads when retrieving appropriate data. Because the heads are fixed over a sturdy non-mobile shaft, the hard-disk will be much more sturdier and shold increase the MTBF of the HDD.......
This should be possible right?
*shaft=arm where the head is connected and the fixed end is riveted/screwed to the actuator.....
