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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.

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  1. Re:Big deal. by Sokie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well this WD drive does sport a 1.2 million hour MTBF and 5 year warantee. It's pretty much built with reliability in mind since they are targetting entry- and mid-level servers.

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  2. Re:Finally... by Sivar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, but how long till it fries itself?

    I'd rather have something slow that I can trust, rather than something that goes out in a brillant ball of fire--even though it was really fast.

    The reviewed drive has a 5 year warranty. How long is the warranty on your slower drive?

    The Seagate Cheetah X15.3 is the world's fastest hard drive (until the Maxtor Atlas 15K is released). It is one of the most reliable drives you can buy, with an extremely high rating in StorageReview.com's reliability survey, and an excellent history in IBM, Dell, etc's enterprise servers.

    "Slower is more reliable" doesn't hold water anymore, though it is true that early 7200 RPM IDE drives were less reliable than the slower 5400 RPM drives.

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  3. Re:Stand back and watch for now.. by Sivar · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's no margin on a $60.00 drive. It seems to be that way, since once drives hit about the $75 mark they tend to be phased out.
    I find it extremely impressive that they can get that cheap at all.
    MaxtorSCSI, a SCSI engineer at Maxtor (funny, that), and a forum user on StorageReview.com, stated once that hard drives are the highest precision mechanical devices, by far, in the average person's home.
    The platter has to be so flat that, spinning at thousands of RPM, the heads must float above the platter at less than 1/50 the width of a human hair, or slightly more distance than the width of an average smoke particle. And they have to survive being bumped, because if those heads touch the platters, all hell (and the heads) breaks loose.

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