Reply to post: Re: about the only possible use that I can think of

Seagate's lightbulb moment: Make read-write heads operate independently

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Re: about the only possible use that I can think of

They can't read/write on multiple heads at once because the tracks are so close together that thermal variation means that all heads don't align with the same tracks every time. They'd have to reduce density by a fairly significant margin to do what you suggest.

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