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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Re:30%? by jkrise · 2003-02-20 23:08 · Score: -1, Redundant

With enough marketing 'spin' and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, two identical drives can be made to perform better.

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Re:Apple's Xserve comes to mind.. by Morky · 2003-02-21 00:30 · Score: -1, Redundant

Not only didn't you read the article, you didn't read the post.
Man, Funny..I can make it up as a go along... by Fallen+Kell · 2003-02-21 00:49 · Score: -1, Redundant

and still get modded up :) Going anonymous this time cause don't want to have 2 posts so I can get modded down :)

Ahh, hell, I feel brave today, my karma can take it.

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