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Review of First 10K IDE Drive

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

Sivar writes "StorageReview has a review of the first 10,000 RPM IDE hard drive. Despite the speed that other technologies are improving, this is the first rotational speed increase in almost six years for standard IDE drives." The review is pretty thorough, but also warns to keep in mind that the reviewed unit is only beta hardware.

16 of 314 comments (clear)

  1. ObPrediction by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    7200 RPM should be fast enough for anybody.

  2. Re:Can they produce these with a serial ATA interf by CanSpice · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean exactly like the one they reviewed?

    Did you even read the article?

  3. Re:Finally... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice to know they are finally starting to speed up the slowest part of the computer again.

    You mean the user?

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  4. 10K hard drive?! by EverStoned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did we go back in time to 1975?!

  5. Ahem... not true. by Geminus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a Maxtor 14 GB IDE-HD that is 10,000 RPM. Sure it sounds like a jet engine... but I've had it almost three years now, with no problems.

  6. Looks like by Rooked_One · · Score: 5, Funny

    even 10,000 rotations per minute isn't enough to keep up with the /. effect.

  7. Re:What to be more shocked about by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't worry, soon CmdrTypo will repost this to confirm that the news is in fact about the 10k rpm drive.

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  8. WTF? by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great! Now I can get a second-rate, first generation 10KRPM hard drive with bad server performance and almost no capacity, from a company that disavowed the high end years ago by bailing on the SCSI market, all for the same price as established SCSI drives of the same size or established ATA drives four times the size.

    Hrmm.

  9. Re:Finally... by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean Windows?

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  10. I'm waiting for.. by euxneks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holographic data storage!!!

    Yes, in the future, we will all have quantum computers with holographic data storage devices, communicating to us through 3d monitors!

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  11. I'm still trying to figure out what was wrong. . . by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    with 78 rpm. If it was good enough for Sachmo it's good enough for me.

    KFG

  12. Re:Finally... by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 4, Funny

    you must be new. How happy we were to use PCI over ISA and/or EISA and/or MCA. But maybe Im just old school. Remember the 5MB seagate hard drive? It is now a doorstop. I still have some 8 inch floppies. My first job involved loading the tape to tape reels.

    and you complain about PCI? kids these days...

  13. Re:Finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've found you can significantly speed up users by replacing them with scripts.

  14. Re:Stand back and watch for now.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The size really doesn't matter

    Oh good. I'm glad that question is finally answered.

  15. Re:Finally... by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a 0K SCSI drive. I'm not too impressed with it.

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  16. Re:Finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it's pretty damn quiet.