techreport.com — Today Seagate announces the latest addition to its Savvio line, and this one's rather special. The new Savvio 15K is not only the world's first 2.5" hard drive with platters spinning at 15,000 RPM, Seagate also says it's 10% faster than 3.5" 15K-RPM drives, making it the world's fastest hard drive.
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neuromancerzeroJan 16, 2007
Isn't this the iPod HDD? Is there any chance of a disk LIKE this coming to an iPod. I just got a 80 gig one, but that barely fits my music. I have no videos on it. 150ish gigs sounds like what i need/want. I know this is too loud/hot/unreliable, but a 150 10,000rpm disk in an iPod would be fantastic.
merrebornJan 16, 2007
The drive in the ipod really doesn't need to be any faster than 5000 rpm. There's simply no benefit -- 5000 RPM is more than fast enough to stream video data at any bitrate. Anything higher would run hotter, draw higher wattage, be more expensive, and be more prone to fail when you drop the thing.Same goes for just about *any* embedded device, like Tivo. If you stick anything faster than 5000 RPM in your Tivo, you're not gonna see any performance benefit, but your Tivo *will* run hot.You could stick this thing in a laptop... But you'd better not drop it while the disk is spinning.
ez12aJan 16, 2007
"I know notebooks use 2.5" IDE"The newest laptops use SATA They came out with a new drive with the SAS interface, which is backwards compatible with SATA. These drives are for enterprise applications, not the everyday laptop. Though the 2.5" form factor would give some interesting ideas..
keflerJan 17, 2007
@hadak -- yeah, I'd think that for a laptop this would be bad for the batteries!
tmcdiggJan 17, 2007
Well, the space limitations make this drive impractical.. but kudos for trying.. When they can squeeze 500gb on the 2.5 inch sata2 drive with 64gb of hybrid flash space... call me!Just making the drives smaller has a somewhat Japanese appeal.. (sony 80's/90s thing to miniaturize EVERYTHING ELECTRONIC) but for the rest of us?Nope.. technically you could get enough throughput for a PMP to do HI-DEF video... barely, but would you want to on such a small screen and with so little hard disk space? Think People, think..Also, for wannabe engineers.. it's not how fast the disk rotates.. it's what you get out of the "spin"(ie throughput.. data in/data out) faster isn't always better.. there are other electronic configurations of substrate being investigated for possible hard drive advances.. but this is a tedious task, not always bearing fruit within the design reliability of todays equipment... (3-5 year window of guaranteed reliable operation... relatively speaking)
bassjunkieJan 17, 2007
This looks quite cool, the company I'm working with atm recently took delivery of some new HP Proliant servers which all used the 2.5" HDD's and they are squeezing alot more HDD's into a smaller form factor, up to 8 or 9 mounted vertically! all this in a 2U form factor! This along with the fact that they ran on the new Xeon meant they where a lot quiter and one could then assume running cooler then the older servers which can only really be a good thing in a rack for of them!
tombombJan 22, 2007
@ Petronski: I'm pretty sure it is in the 'If you have to ask, you can't afford it" Catagory.