Patent ID: 7102842

Claim:
A disk drive data storage system having: a rotating disk having at least one data surface, said rotating disk having a spindle at the center of rotation of said disk; a plurality n of independently movable head actuators, said plurality of movable head actuators coupled to at least one read/write head, said head actuators located substantially 360/n degrees circumferentially about said spindle, each said read/write head processing a head data stream concurrently with other said head data streams; said rotating disk including at least one logical sector, said logical sector comprising n ordered physical sectors in sequence, said ordered physical sector sequence being a first physical sector through an nth physical sector, each said physical sector located such that all said n head actuators are capable of simultaneously and uniquely seeking to said n ordered physical sectors within a seek time; multiplexing means coupled to said n head data streams and producing a single stream of read data from said n head data streams, said stream of read data including, in sequence, head data from said first physical sector through said nth physical sector; where n is an integer greater than 1.