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Seagate Claims 2.5" SCSI Drive is World's Fastest

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-supersonic-record dept.

theraindog writes "Seagate has announced a 2.5" SCSI hard drive that spins at an astounding 15,000RPM. The Savvio 15K is the first 2.5" hard drive with a 15K-RPM spindle speed, but what's more interesting is that Seagate claims it's the fastest hard drive on the market. Indeed, the drive boasts an impressive 2.9ms seek time, which is more than half a millisecond quicker than that of comparable 3.5" SCSI drives. The Savvio 15K also features perpendicular recording technology and a claimed Mean Time Between Failures of 1.6 million hours."

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  1. Breaking the bottleneck by cpearson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They just keep chipping away at that Von Neumann bottleneck.

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  2. the edge of the plate spins 50 meters a second! by dgerman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is insane. The edge of the plate travels 3km a minute:

    2.5 inches diameter => ~20cm perimeter at 15k RPMs => 3km/Minute => 50m/s => 180 km/hr.

  3. Re:What's so astounding about 15k rpm? by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess what's new is the 2.5'' form factor. Smaller drives should be generally faster due to increased density, but they get a bad reputation from laptop drives with really low RPM.

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