A high-performance disk device is provided. A plurality of control chips included in the disk device each include a cache
control circuit and an arbitration circuit, and control one of a plurality of
actuator systems. A first control
chip is connected to a buffer memory via the cache
control circuit included in the first control
chip, and is connected to a second control
chip. The second control chip is connected to the first control chip and a third control chip. An arbitration circuit included in the second control chip performs arbitration between data transfer between the third control chip and the first control chip and data transfer between an
actuator system controlled by the second control chip among the plurality of
actuator systems and the first control chip.