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

Jim O'Reilly
Holmes

This has been done before. Hitachi tried it in the 1980's. Not much interest!

Anyway, this improves IOPS from 150 per secomd to maybe 300 per second...only 44,700 more to catch up with an SSD!

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