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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."

2 of 316 comments (clear)

  1. Federation Flagship HDD? by theGreater · · Score: -1, Troll

    Make it so, number one!

    Engage.

    We come in peace (shoot to kill).

    -theGreater.

  2. Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd just as soon store my data in the Goatse hole before I'd ever consider a Western Digital drive.

    To boldy send your data where no data has gone before.