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NDC
02-12-2003, 10:58 PM
going to run at 10,000rpm! SCSI technology will soon release a 20,000rpm drive? :)


Western Digital to Launch 10 000rpm Desktop HDD on the 11th of February!
Posted 2/05/03 at 2:02 pm by Anton

Western Digital company was the first to unveil a 7200rpm desktop HDD. WD was the first to offer 8MB buffer on desktop intended hard disk drives. Apparently, WD will be the first company to produce the first ever 10 000rpm HDD for desktop computers on the 11th of February this year. With the announcement next Tuesday WD will strengthen its market positions by continuing to bring technologies previously found in servers destined products to consumers data storage market.

The new line of WD’s HDDs will offer 8MB buffer, Serial ATA-150 interface and the glamour 10 000rpm fluid dynamic bearing motors! According to this Japanese web-site, WD plans to offer 5 year limited warranty on the HDD with MTBF of 1.2 million hours. I wonder how much one such baby is going to cost…

The new HDDs are going to offer significant performance improvements over the present generations of hard disk drives and WD itself is going to earn plenty selling such hi-tech devices to hardware enthusiasts.




Link (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1044471776)



I wonder how much of a hit it will have on your processor. As for, SCSI, 10K and 15K or more wouldn't effect it since it has a controller on the card.

Buzioid
04-27-2003, 9:57 PM
In the May issue of MaximumPC they put out an article about this.
It is called Western Digital 360GD Raptor. Only 36GB for $160.
They compared it to the old champ: the IBM180GXP
Here are the benchmarks that they gathered:
1.WD360GD vs 2.IBM180GXP
Sysmark 2002 Office 1. 166 2. 166
HDTach Average Sequential Read 1. 55.1MB/s 2. 45.5MB/s
HDTach Average Sequential Write 1. 33.5MB/s 2. 27.7MB/s
HDTach Random Access Time 1. 8.1ms 2. 13ms
IOMeter Desktop total I/Os per second 1. 190 2. 150
IOMeter Desktop average I/O response time 1. 337ms 2. 424ms
IOMeter Web Server total I/Os per second 1. 199 2. 143
IO Meter Web serve average I/O reponse time 1. 5109ms 2. 6181