20,000 RPM raptors on their way

uvarvu · 6 Jun 2008 at 12:55

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/06/western-digital-developing-20-000rpm-raptor-to-take-on-ssds/

Schnippzle · 6 Jun 2008 at 12:59

Sweeeeeeet!!!!!! Wonder how fast they will be, and if they are going to be able to compete with SSD's with regards to price.

Adam_D200 · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:06

Sounds very impressive, heck even at 10krpm its not slow let alone double that.

Netvyper · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:07

why not just release 15,000rpm disks in a consumer package first?

milkinc13 · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:13

15K server drives are loud, what will these be like? deafening

helmutcheese · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:14

Jesus, I dreamt of 15k (12k was skipped due to Harmonics), wonder how loud 20k is lol.

helmutcheese · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:15

Schnippzle said:
Sweeeeeeet!!!!!! Wonder how fast they will be, and if they are going to be able to compete with SSD's with regards to price.

I think they have to price fairly due to the up and coming SSD's.

james.miller · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:17

bout time. even my old freecom cd writer used to spin the disks at 10k lol. they should in all honestly be easily capable of achieving 20k in a closed hdd

NickK · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:34

Lol.. Next we'll be using CERN with atomic racing (like the new racetrack memory).. bit faster than 20Krpm though..

Slackworth · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:47

We're more likely to see a 15K RPM drive first.

Bear in mind the VelociRaptor took over 1.5 years from when it was put on the roadmap and the 15K is to be developed first. I can't see this coming till at least 2010-2012.

When I spoke to WD yesterday they said they are getting prepared for SSD but do not see it as an immediate problem for now.

uvarvu · 6 Jun 2008 at 13:49

milkinc13 said:
15K server drives are loud, what will these be like? deafening

My fujitsu 15k drives are quieter than my raptors. They've come a long way since the old days...

kleox64 · 6 Jun 2008 at 14:34

20k should be possible, they may need to reduce platter diameters a little bit. My guess it could be a 3 platter at 300GB.

clocka · 6 Jun 2008 at 16:21

slackworth, ask them about a 15k and 20krpm raptor and say you saw this article. I'd love a 20krpm raptor! If they can get 4ms access times and 140mb/sec avg it would be the king of kings, currently the velociraptor will be killed my 2 * samsung 640gb drives in raid0 except for seek times of course but a 20krpm drive would be about the same speed hopefully as 2 raided non-raptor drives. It may actually be worth a £190+ price tag for a change.

Breezy · 6 Jun 2008 at 17:48

clocka said:
It may actually be worth a £190+ price tag for a change.

keep dreaming ittle be more like £3-400

helmutcheese · 6 Jun 2008 at 17:51

They cant price it too high, it needs beat of SSD's.

I doubt it will cost any more than the Raptor 16MB at launch.

cozm01 · 6 Jun 2008 at 23:57

Not worth the noise, Vista thrashes them.

Strife212 · 7 Jun 2008 at 00:16

Turn off scheduled defragging and disk indexing and its fine

Fuzz · 7 Jun 2008 at 00:20

HOw do you do that? these raptors are doing my nut in crunching away on the desk

Strife212 · 7 Jun 2008 at 00:54

Do this to disable disk indexing:

The only downside is it slows that startbar's search feature down, and the benefit is that it doesnt search the hard drive for updated files all day and night.

helmutcheese · 7 Jun 2008 at 02:18

You still need Kill the Indexing Service in Admin Tools section (called Windows Search in Vista).

Searching takes seconds longer, no big deal.