{"id":122988,"date":"2021-05-25T02:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/seagates-mach-2-is-the-fastest-hard-drive-out-there"},"modified":"2021-05-25T02:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:10:33","slug":"seagates-mach-2-is-the-fastest-hard-drive-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/seagates-mach-2-is-the-fastest-hard-drive-out-there","title":{"rendered":"Seagate\u2019s Mach.2 is the fastest hard drive out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRlm3K_a_lU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seagate has been working toward developing a dual-actuator hard drive, meaning that the drive will contain two sets of independently controlled read\/write heads. Now, after several years, the company has released its first functional dual-actuator hard drive, the Mach.2. Currently, only enterprises can purchase and use this product, meaning that at least for now, end users will have to wait their turn.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Seagate has reported the Mach.2\u2019s sequential, sustained transfer rate as up to 524MBps\u2014over double the rate of a fast but generic rust disk, closer to the capacity seen in SATA SSD. In fact, this increased <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transfer+rate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transfer rate<\/a> carries over into input\/output as well, featuring 304 IOPS read \/ 384 IOPS write and only 4.16 ms average latency. By contrast, normal hard drives usually run at 100\/150 IOPS with about the same average latency.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all of that extra capacity requires additional power. Even while idle, the Mach.2 runs at 7.2 W, while Seagate\u2019s standard Ironwolf line runs at 5 W while idle. That said, it is a bit easier to measure the power specs of Mach.2 than Ironwolf, as the former\u2019s power use can be determined using several random input\/output scenarios, as opposed to Ironwolf, whose power is gauged from its \u201caverage operating power,\u201d a metric undefined by the Seagate data sheet reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seagate has been working toward developing a dual-actuator hard drive, meaning that the drive will contain two sets of independently controlled read\/write heads. Now, after several years, the company has released its first functional dual-actuator hard drive, the Mach.2. Currently, only enterprises can purchase and use this product, meaning that at least for now, end [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}