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Western Digital Working On a 20,000 RPM Drive

Posted by kdawson on from the positively-supersonic dept.

MrKaos writes "Western Digital seems to be preparing for the onslaught of solid-state drives set to impact its market by developing a 20,000 rpm hard drive. Similar to the VelociRaptor line of drives, the new drives are speculated to be offering lower capacity as a tradeoff for faster seek and write times." This report out of Taipei is the only word on the rumored WD 20K drive. It's said to be a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" enclosure, for efficiency of cooling — the arrangement the Register enjoyed poking fun at when the 10K drive was upgraded last month.

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  1. Seagate responds by Leuf · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've taken the next step by mounting our 15,000 rpm drives in an external enclosure which then spins the drive at a further 10,000 rpms, for a total system speed of 25,000 rpms. Initial benchmarks are very promising!

    1. Re:Seagate responds by Firehed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Before now, nobody understood why I have all of my computers sitting on top of turntables. Now I'll just point them to your post, since they couldn't fathom what I meant when I said it makes it run faster.

      I had also tried mounting them in a paint can shaker to get at least another 15Hz out of the CPU, but I couldn't stand the noise.

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  2. Western Digital? Oh good! by ThatsNotFunny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now it can lose my data twice as fast the last one I bought.

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  3. Re:They should work on a 20,001 RPM drive by MostAwesomeDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    20001: A Speed Odyssey.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

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