ickibar1234
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Internal RAID across the platters doesn't happen, because there is an offset somehow. I don't know if it's by sector or by track but with a sequential read or write, I know more platters doesn't equal more performance, or not more than 10% or so going from 1 platter to 4+ platters of the same density/product family. It's too bad, it would be great to see.Tek, I've been told "no, we're at our limits of mechanical reads..."
I heard this in 1988, too. 1995. Onward.
And actually, if I think about it, all drives are RAIDs. I mean - what's a RAID? "Data recorded across drives", right? So, when I have 2 or 5 platters inside a drive casing, aren't I "writing across platters/drives", therefore? Bits here, bytes there?
Yes. The Formal RAID is now "spanning platter-writing across more platters" now. I do wonder what happened to those 36-inch pizza platters that IBM installed in so many systems in the 80s...
"Welcome to Dominos!" Ah yes...
WD's 6TB red and I think 6TB green 5400RPM drives use 1.2TB/platter with no helium.
Will Seagate do the same with 8TB and 7 platters or will they have to use helium? 6 platters at 1.5TB/platter?
Can't wait for these to reach consumer level, then finally 3TB , 4TB drives will get into the $100 dollar range after what, 4 years of stagnation!?