Western Digital to Launch 10 000rpm Desktop HDD on the 11th of February!

HeXa · 6th February 2003, 12:27 PM

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

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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.

- HeXa

Vow · 6th February 2003, 12:31 PM

Oh hell yea, go WD.

Now I just need a SATA mobo...

Shado · 6th February 2003, 3:19 PM

The question will be how much they cost.

Not a huge point if they cost as much as SCSI drives.

antomathy · 6th February 2003, 3:21 PM

i'll get one =)

sounds impressive, though sounds expensive..

Iceman · 6th February 2003, 3:24 PM

Mmmm... and its a WD.. colour me wet and gooey..

Well.. until I see the price tag

Mjollnir · 6th February 2003, 4:15 PM

fantastic!

10000 rpm finally makes it to consumer market

I am sure these babies will cost a lot less than SCSI 10K equivalents

destrkta · 6th February 2003, 5:17 PM

hmmm i wonder should be interesting though really i'm using a 15k rpm scsi u160 disk here and nothing special, don't expect a huge or even noticeable performance increase.

commando · 6th February 2003, 5:43 PM

mmm wonder how these will perform in a raid config

BrendanWOR · 6th February 2003, 6:20 PM

w00t can't wait for these to be released, i'll be getting one for sure

gabbs19 · 6th February 2003, 8:23 PM

Wonder how hot they will run. Is thier any sata to normal ide cable converters around.

antomathy · 6th February 2003, 8:50 PM

lol gabbs, why would you wanna do that..
sata to normal ide.. no point haha..

and also, can you even raid sata hard drives?

DoCsIs · 6th February 2003, 8:59 PM

Yeah you can Raid SATA drives, the IT7Max2 comes with the ability to do this out of the box.
Also there are adaptors (iirc), but i dont think u can find them in Aus.

dcl · 6th February 2003, 9:00 PM

yes you can.
and its very sexy

saba · 6th February 2003, 9:36 PM

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Originally posted by antomathy
lol gabbs, why would you wanna do that..
sata to normal ide.. no point haha..

and also, can you even raid sata hard drives?

Of course, would be a bit of a waste of technology if a drive couldn't

*points to sig*

uniqueuser · 6th February 2003, 10:07 PM

and what about the heat?

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