Review of First 10K IDE Drive

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.

Comments

Re:ObDumbasses

[ergo98]

Wow, if that's a joke (and I take it that you're the poster who realize how dumbass it is and now is rescinding it and claiming it was a joke), then it's a pathetic joke. There is absolutely nothing even remotely funny about it, and instead it just comes across as mentally challenged.

I know it's a joke, but

[lingqi]

WHY do we need fast hard-disks?

Have anybody ever actually thought about it? For the amount of extra money to blow, why not spend more for memory and have EVERYTHING run from there? what, 4G is not enough for your desktop system? x86 only addresses that much right now, ya know...

Sure, your's might boot faster, but I still don't understand why we can't have linux just run off memory and don't even touch the hard-drives. How much trouble is to cache (even, user selectively) some directory of common-used code into memory? ls / ifconfig / vi or emacs depending on your flavor?

Anyway, I know there are situations in which a fast harddrive is warrented, but I still think that the money is better spent on more memory; a lot more memory. or a RAID controller.