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Enterprise-class ATA Drives

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Re:Question about spindle speed by Nintendork · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Did you know that Iraq's foreign secretary, Tariq Aziz, is a Christian?"

    I know it's a bit off topic to talk about your signature, but I'm going to anyway.

    Tariq Aziz is not a Christian. He just uses the title to manipulate gullible people and their desire to prevent large, dominantly Christian nations from attacking Iraq. If you're going to keep the sig, please remove that second comma.

    -Lucas

    Here's a bumper sticker that needs to be made:
    Intellectual Thinkers...No Attack Iraq?
    You Can Prevent Terrorist Attacks With Words!