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Seagate Spins 15k RPM HDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the faster-is-better dept.

An anonymous reader sent us a story about Seagate spinning 15,000-rpm disk drive. This stuff spins faster then my head ;) I don't shop for hard drives very often... it kinda blew me away to see 40 gig IDE drives for only a few hundred bucks. I'm getting all nostalgic for the days of two 360k floppy drives. Weird.

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  1. *sniff* they had 17K in the late 1950s by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 5

    And I used it in the early 1970s. Univac SS90 (90 column cards, round holes) had a 50,000 digit (5000 words x 10 digits) 17,000 rpm drum for main memory. Now Seagate is getting close, but they aren't up to that yet, and by gum, never mind that Seagate claims all the other manufacturers are 2 quarters behind: they are all 42+ years behind Univac.

    Dang thing took an hour to spin down and ten minutes to spin up.

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