why no more 5400rpm drives?

tomos · 30 Jan 2006 at 13:16

i mean the new drives out now are all 7200rpm arent they? the 5400 ones used to be cheaper so handy for just storage.

do they not make them anymore?

Werewolf · 30 Jan 2006 at 13:49

presumably not the demand any more, and the costs of doing small runs of 5,400rpm drives would be higher than just switching to only making 7,200rpm drives

It's the same reason a 40gb (£35) drive is only a few pounds cheaper than a 160gb drive (£45), the "lesser" drive is barely any cheaper to make/distribute.

semi-pro waster · 30 Jan 2006 at 13:50

Not many do but Samsung still make a 160gb IDE drive that is 5400rpm it appears. If you want a SATA drive though I think you can only get 7200rpm, even although they may cost slightly more I'd probably still go for a 7200rpm drive.

tomos · 30 Jan 2006 at 13:57

i was just thinking of the huuge 500GB drives and was hoping there would be cheaper ones that ran @ 5400rpm instead

ah well. looks like those days are over

peetee · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:42

i was jus thinking i could do with a 500gb drive or something but yea there too expensive

LewisStuart · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:51

peetee said:
i was jus thinking i could do with a 500gb drive or something but yea there too expensive

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