Acho que já é assim que funciona:
Cylinders
A cylinder comprises the same track number on each platter, spanning
all such tracks across each platter surface that is able to store data
(without regard to whether or not the track is "bad"). Thus, it is a
three-dimensional structure. Any track comprising part of a specific
cylinder can be written to and read from while the actuator assembly
remains stationary, and one way in which hard drive manufacturers have
increased drive access speed has been by increasing the number of
platters which can be read at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector#Cylinders
EDITAR
esta citação da Wikipedia não diz tudo, os caras de pcguide.com diga claramente:
Only one head can read from or write to the hard disk at a given time.
Special circuitry is used to control which head is active at any given
time.
Então, isso é para o HDD de baixa / média extremidade, MAS me deparei com algumas discussões antigas aqui e aqui onde eles estão se referindo à técnica que você está descrevendo como " RAID interno " e eu realmente não sei o suficiente sobre o HDD de hoje tecnologia.