Enterprise-class ATA Drives

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 20, 2003 @10:48PM from the fast-enough-to-make-disk-heads-spin dept.

dfung writes "This has been mindlessly discussed many times before here, but Western Digital has now introduced real enterprise-class ATA drives with SCSI-like performance specs and 30% lower price. So now you can buy a real 10K rpm ATA drive. Interestingly enough, they mention the reason for the traditional difference in price between ATA and SCSI which I never have seen mentioned here - it has to do with testing costs, not controller electronics|platter quality|etc. Another interesting tidbit is that 160 million ATA drives were sold last year. I saw about 2 million of them stacked up in the aisles at Fry's Electronics yesterday, but that sure is a lot of drives."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 22:50 · Score: -1, Flamebait

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first! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 22:52 · Score: -1, Flamebait

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In Soviet Russia...... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 22:54 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Enterprise class pr0n stores YOU!
Noise by salamander_sjv · 2003-02-20 23:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh great. I suppose these things will produce about 40dB going by the rest of WD's range. I'll wait for Seagate's thanks.