What happened to 10,000rpm hard drives ?

10k drives for consumers were a niche niche even at the time. That little bit faster than a 7200 drive.

Then SSDs came along and obliterated that niche.

Maybe the economics still works out for industrial use.
 
I dabbled in SCSI drives about 20 years ago. bought a 15K SCSI drive along with a SCSI interface card at the time which was very expensive. I couldn't afford it at the time really as I was 'inbetween careers'
I didn't keep it for very long as I couldn't get it to work with the AMD rig I bought a few months later when I started the job I do now. I did have a much quicker bootup time, but apart from that it really wasnt any quicker.

I did think about WD velociraptors when they were on the market but I decided against it as I thought the performance would be not as good as SCSI and the cost would not be justified over 7200RPM drives. SSD I bought about 11 years ago & not looked back.
 
I had one of these, back in the day they were hot and loud drives! Didn't use it for long as others have mentioned SSD's came in and that went to my brothers rig.
 
I needed more sata ports so got a cheapo sas card. After a year or so i came across cheap 15k sas drives and i though may as well give it a go since iv got the controller. The speed is very good used for video editing and torrents. But noise is loud. Turns out having the drive on the carpet outside the case when backing it up it was considerably quieter. The vibrations travel through the case and get amplified so need a case with rubber mounts or so. Also drive runs at 50c most of the time. The 10k drive i got now runs 44c most of the time and less noise but maybe i can use the 15k drive with some gangster cooling tactics.
Mega cheap though to get 15k 600gb sas drives for like 8 quid all in. Worth a play if you got a controller. Power consumption is higher since its a 3.5inch but those 2.5inch ones seem to be much better on power
 
digitaldreams said:
Now drives seem to max out at 7,000rpm ??. Wouldn't throughput be higher even on old sata3 ?
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The faster drives aren't designed for faster throughput, they're for lower latency/seek times. For example a 7k drive will be around 8ms and a 15k drive around 2-3ms.

Consumer drives don't really need that kind of speed, especially now that we have SSD storage. Even 5400rpm drives are fine for the storage of media.
 
I can't remember exact specs but a 7200 with ~3x the capacity short stroked would normally get close to or same speed/latency as the fancy 10-15K drives. (You wouldn't want to use that as an alternative in a professional application however as the 15K drives intended for enterprise have much better durability under heavy load conditions).
 
no idea what said:
The faster drives aren't designed for faster throughput, they're for lower latency/seek times. For example a 7k drive will be around 8ms and a 15k drive around 2-3ms.

Consumer drives don't really need that kind of speed, especially now that we have SSD storage. Even 5400rpm drives are fine for the storage of media.
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These days lower rpm drives use massive platter density and still manage good sequential data transfer rates.
 
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