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

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Re: Old tech solved this decades ago

You can't have more than one head per arm active in the drive (not just on a platter, in the entire drive) because the tracks are far too close together. Thermal variation means that you can only line up properly with one track on one platter/surface at a time.

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