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- swordedge, on 08/17/2008, -1/+129and as a bonus, if you carry one of these drives in a device like your laptop while it is spinning, you will never fall down again!
- Rudegar, on 08/18/2008, -1/+66at 20,000 RPM only dogs can hear the scream and yes it will make them attack
- orlyfactor, on 08/18/2008, -2/+67So it will only get to 200 degrees Celsius?
- ControlcChris, on 08/18/2008, -9/+55like i want my computer any louder.
- domokunt, on 08/18/2008, -0/+44Attach wheels to your laptop and you've got a segway!
- dafragsta, on 08/18/2008, -5/+46They've been saying that for the past 10 years.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -2/+38Maybe, but SSD is still far too expensive for the capacity you get.
- Darksoul, on 08/17/2008, -0/+33Yeah see the problem for this is I won't be able to afford it *shakes fist* dam you for showing me something I want but can't afford.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+31.................
Trust me.
Your downloads are NOT being capped by your hard drive speed. - Cyclozion, on 08/18/2008, -2/+26That's over 9000!
- dn11, on 08/18/2008, -1/+25FYI the 10K RPM Velociraptor is super quiet and cool. WD has been making major advances in that area - I would expect a 20K to be loud, but probably quieter than you expect. the small form factor of the spindle no doubt has something to do with it.
- SomeImagination, on 08/18/2008, -21/+44Waste of time SSD is the future
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+22According to the article it'll be silent.
- Katocan, on 08/18/2008, -5/+27Why don't they spend time working on a bigger and cheaper SSD?
- fr0ng, on 08/18/2008, -3/+23That's Formula 1 and MotoGP speeds. VERY NAICE.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -5/+25thats faster than an SAS /SCSI disk.
- Intervene, on 08/18/2008, -1/+20You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round, round round!
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+19I hope it's not silent. The only thing I want less than a raptor in my house is a silent one.
- phatboye, on 08/18/2008, -5/+24Why is it that WD is the only company to even offer consumer level 10,000rpm SATA HDs? Seem like most of the other HD manufacturers are more focused on making HD with large disk space. While some people may need all that disk space, I don't. I'd rather have HDs with higher rpms that can load my applications faster. It’s high time we move past the 7400rpm limit for desktop HDs.
And SSD are just not reliable yet for me to replace my traditional HDs yet. - cquinnd, on 08/18/2008, -0/+18Because they don't make SSDs? You want to talk to Hitachi or Fujitsu for that.
- dafragsta, on 08/18/2008, -6/+23nearly $1000 for 80GB of SSD is not affordable.
- dn11, on 08/18/2008, -0/+17I know man... I'm also saving up to buy a bigger monitor so I can run Crysis on the highest settings.
- SomeImagination, on 08/18/2008, -0/+16SSD drives will drop in price significantly and increase in capacity over the next few years. Remember how fast flash memory dropped in price and increased in size?
- ExRe, on 08/18/2008, -0/+15More like $500 for a 128GB SSD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub ... - Elranzer, on 08/18/2008, -0/+15Damn, so are we gonna have to constantly replace the oil on these every few months?
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+13Yes read only memory would be great for storing stuff on..
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+13You know, you're not wrong.
Vacuum pumps and gyro related instruments in aircraft spin at 10K+ RPM - l0k0, on 08/18/2008, -1/+13If you're worried about DoAs than a RAID 0 is probably the worst thing you can do. In a RAID 0, if any drives in the array fail, all you're data is lost; and with more drives in the array, the chances of having a defective drive get worse.
And Aeaus, that is a common misconception that a Raid 0 doubles speed with 2 drives and so on. Raid 0 offers nearly the combined SEQUENTIAL transfer rate. For example, you will find that a single 10k rpm drive will outperform two 7.2k rpm drives.
http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=S ... - mojoel, on 08/18/2008, -1/+12Yeah cuz as soon as you plunk this in your machine your ISP automatically upgrades you to fiber.
- macslut, on 08/18/2008, -0/+11Not only that, but the storage capacity will be smaller than anything I could use it for.
- gthyb, on 08/18/2008, -3/+13Will it have a transmission?
- Aeaus, on 08/18/2008, -2/+12Are there any basis to your claim that they'll be defective? Manufacturers like WD wouldn't release broken products simply to reach a performance benchmark. Raptors have been some of the most reliable on the market.
And why a RAID? Obviously doing a RAID would be better, hell a 20 drive RAID 0 with 4200 RPM drives will beat the living crap out of their new drive, point being? - bassman12593, on 08/18/2008, -1/+11But still Not thick enough to protect you when the sheer speed of 20,000 RPM tears apart the platters and shrapnel cuts through you and your rig like a hot knife through butter.
- dn11, on 08/18/2008, -0/+10until the price per gigabyte is even close to leveling out it's not a waste of time at all. raids, file servers etc that need a ***** load of high performance drives aren't going to invest in SSD yet.
- honkimon, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9Wow, nerd rage...
- chedabob, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9But the Raptor drives aren't exactly cheap as chips.
- Metatron197, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9you can double the use of your computer by using it to cook
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9they should make the speed variable, you could make it play a tune.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9Lightspeed briefs?
- lolupissed, on 08/18/2008, -4/+12I dugg you down because most harddrives are 7200RPM and not 7400
Yeah I am a jack ass. - orgazmo, on 08/18/2008, -0/+8Then get 2 Raptors?
- Myztry, on 08/18/2008, -0/+8Faster storage is severerly needed (or smarter storage). It's so frustrating sitting on a decent quad x 3.2 Ghz with up to 4 Gig supposedly getting utilized for caching, only have to wait for loading...............
They could optimise the software footprint, access methods, etc but I think the brute force approach is much more likely to give gains over the repeatedly failing intellectual approach. Especially on the Windows front. - ncc74656m, on 08/18/2008, -4/+12WANT
- Frost9999, on 08/18/2008, -2/+9SSD drives are now on the market at prices that people can afford. They are appearing in laptops and have been standard in portable music players for a while now. SSD is no longer the future, it's available today.
My next upgrade with include installing an SSD for OS and apps. My archive storage is still too large to be economical though at over 3TB. - cquinnd, on 08/18/2008, -0/+7Flash is still much slower on write speeds than rotating HDs, and the type of memory needed for comparable SSDs still has a way to go to keep up with the capacity increases on magnetic platters over the next few years.
There will be a growing market for SSDs, but they are not going to take over the HD market entirely. - hauntedchippy, on 08/18/2008, -0/+7Which is why he said it was the future?
- buddyfarr, on 08/18/2008, -1/+7@KaptainKraken - SORRY but everyone here knows that OJ is the real killer...not heat.
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