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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. Hah! by Hilleh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hah! And you thought 7200RPM drives died fast...

  2. Re:I know it's a joke, but by lingqi · · Score: 2, Redundant

    that wasn't my point, and you don't have to explain memory hierachy to me, I know it well.

    The point is - hard drives with high transfer rate (okay, so 10k will afford you a few microseconds of access time too) have very few benefits, and only in a very few areas (that *I* can think of, anyway):

    1) video-edit
    2) system boot
    3) kernel compile; maybe
    4) swap

    now, with a large enough memory, you shouldn't ever NEED to swap, or worry about using massive space for kernel compile (and really now, you gentoo kids need to chill out a little), etc etc.

    For video edit, you can use the extra space anyhow so for similar price a RAID 7.2k drive array would work out better price/perf wise, I'd think (and sorry but a raided 7.2k would get better rates than 10k single, while probably not costing much more). (with raid card, you can get probably three 7200 drives while only two 10k drives)

    so, besides boot-time, WHY would you need a faster hard-drive; or the question being, why invest the money into a faster drive, instead of a LOT of memory?

    can you imagine how your system will scream if it never have to page, ever again? (technically, you can't really "page" anyhow since you already filled all 32 bits - that's AFAIK, correct me if you know better; it's been a while)

    so, it's more like a economics question.

    I am not really suggesting RAMDISK, btw - I just think that you can compile your OS / programs with option like "I have massive memory so use it lavishly and don't touch that drive."

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  3. Re:10K hard drive?! by Sivar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    10K hard drive?! Did we go back in time to 1975?!

    hey, it's a lot better than current 7.2K hard drives. I can barely fit my grocery list on those things!

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