Flurry of Hard Drive Reviews

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday November 5, 2005 @11:34AM from the truth-lies-and-magnetic-storage dept.

Sivar writes "After a long hiatus while setting up their new testbed, StorageReview.com has released a number of reviews of the latest hard drives, including Hitachi's Deskstar 7K500 which now occupies the top performance spot for desktop drives, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 which is the first shipping Serial ATA-II drive, the Seagate NL35 for backup servers and other "nearline" storage, and the Western Digital WD4000YR, which interestingly is actually based on their famous (and expensive) Raptor unit." Hitachi's SATA-II drive was also recently reviewed by BigBruin in case you missed it.

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Re:Seagate's "nearline" drive by drsmithy · 2005-11-05 11:58 · Score: 5, Informative

So to cut through the jargon crap- in other words, someone finally remembered that RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, and that in most cases, when you've got 5 or more drives in an array, you don't need them to be 15,000 RPM?
RAID improves throughput, but not latency. If you need low latency, you need high-RPM drives and no amount of RAID will help you.