Seagate readys 10000RPM HD's

I'm hoping that this comes about too. I also agree that hopefully now 10,000RPM drives will fall in price, and perhaps too they can increase the capacity too, 150GB isn't at all much :/
 
As this has not come from an official source at Seagate, until anything actually appears I'd be inclined not to believe it. Although WD have a monopoly on the 10KRPM SATA drives, Seagate have interest in SCSI/SAS drives which generate huge revenue. If they release a faster enterprise class SATA drive then it could cause a drop in their revenue.

If it is true then good on them! :)
 
My 2 Raptor X's are fine apart from heavy seeking with Achostic Management turned off, you dont buy them for quietness. :cool:

Seagate made a 15k laptop HDD while ago.

" Seagate 15K 2.5"inch Hard Drive
17/01/2007, Cnet News
Seagate has launched a new Savvio 15K HDD which spins at 15000 rpm meaning faster drive for data access useful for Servers and RAID systems. This is compared to Desktop hard drives which currently average 7500rpm or Laptop Notebook drives at 5400rpm or 4800rpm. "
 
hard to believe this from seagate, since seagate have a foot in the scsi market why would they pull out 10krpm ata drives which may eat into thier scsi market? as far as im aware WD does not have a scsi market hence the need for the raptor. :confused:
 
Slackworth said:
It wasn't actually a notebook drive. It was a 2.5" SAS drive. Fujitsu have similar out as well.
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Yeah, the Savvio 15.K1. I've got 4 10K Savvio's which I'm going to be RAID'ing in some form or another for my boot drives. This will be quiet and extremely fast. I just couldn't afford the 15K Savvio's though! (about £400 each for the 36GB models).
 
Cyber-Mav said:
hard to believe this from seagate, since seagate have a foot in the scsi market why would they pull out 10krpm ata drives which may eat into thier scsi market? as far as im aware WD does not have a scsi market hence the need for the raptor. :confused:
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Correct. It would be rather daft of Seagate to do something like this. If it does come out it'll great for us guys though.
 
I don't think limiting 10k RPM HDD to the SCSI market has worked really. Yes there are the raptors, but it hasn't meant that everyone's been rushing out to put SCSI hdd in their computers. All its meant is that people have had to make do with lower performance 7200 drives.

If there was more competition then they would make more money out of people because there are more people who would buy 10k sata drives than would purchase SCSI.
 
On this forum price is limiting factor, go see in gpu forum about how 8800Ultra etc aint worth the extra £ :p.

Ideally I would not want SCSI cards and cables in my rig, and before days of PCI_E you would need a mobos like the older Asus with a 66mhz PCI slot to get over the 133MB/Sec bottleneck.
 
helmutcheese said:
Cause SCSI is costly for Drives/controlers and even cables (ok not as bad as years ago).
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tell me about it, last job i had the beancounter used to turn green when i mentioned the word SCSI.
 
True but you can pick SCSI parts up now for better price than a few years ago, even get 2nd hand kit cheap, not my cup of tea, I can live with Raptors till newer faster mechanical drives appear or go Solid State when it matures.
 
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Scisi, why bother tbh these days, sataII is fast enough and all boards include it as default, saves costs... Should have released 15k rpm hdd's ages ago for sata...
 
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