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[Humpty]

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Seagate claims to have developed the world's fastest hard drive: The new Savvio 15K expands the existing 2.5" SAS enterprise hard drive series with two 15,000 rpm models. According to Seagate, the drive will not only increase the storage performance in rackserver environments but provide greater power efficiency and reliability as well.

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[Eldmannen]

This is interesting.

In the past, 2.5" disks was used only in laptops and wasn't used in servers, but this one is for use in server environments.
2.5" disks have been traditionally known as much slower disks than the 3.5" disks. But this one is faster than the 3.5" disk drives, that is interesting.

Running this disk as a system disk would be pretty nice, coupled with a large 3.5" disk as storage disk.

Pretty nice with 16 mb cache on a 2.5 disk, and that low latency that it has.

Another interesting thing is solid-state disks, but thats another story.
Solid-state disks is the future.

[CTskifreak]

Faster than a Raptor...dang....

Imagine running your operating system and games from this drive....damnnn

AJ

[mkc_vx the 15th]

SAS is for enterprise we home user better be waiting for some SATA/SATA2 15Ker sometime in the near future

just like the older days SCSI always beats EIDE no matter what.

I pray for a day where Hard Drives are no longer mechanical no mo spinning just like flash cards but something blazing fast like RAM.

ciao

[Andavari]

mkc_vx the 15th, on Feb 6 2007, 09:43 AM, said:

I pray for a day where Hard Drives are no longer mechanical no mo spinning just like flash cards but something blazing fast like RAM.

People are already using flash media as a hard disk, I don't remember where I read about it however I suppose it would be rather sloooow compared to the speed of even a mediocre 5,200 RPM hard disk from years past.