Western Digital Annonuces 20,000RPM hard drives.

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Damn that's fast.

That's what she said

 

[bigi]

No matter how many new crapporaptors they make, SSD is the future.

 

[Genx87]

It will bring the read\write speeds inline with todays SSD's. But what about IO\sec?
I read somewhere a cheetah 15K SCSI drive sits at about 160 IO\sec where todays SSD's do about 8K. 20,000 RPM wont bring you near that kind of IO performance.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Atreus21

Originally posted by: extra

Originally posted by: jjones
How far off are we from SSD becoming the standard on a new build?

I'd say within the next 18 months many enthusiasts will have a SSD as their main drive with Windows and other things that need high performance on it, and a large slower HDD with their data, music, and movies. It's really unavoidable at this point that that is the way things are going to be for a while. SSDs aren't going to have the space people crave for quite a while despite the enthusiasm for them. Performance is really ramping up though and the ability to have Windows and your games on a much higher performing drive will be too much for people to resist. =) 18 months I say it'll be common to see in people's builds here.

I think we'll see the biggest migration to SSD going on from the enterprise-level. A fast, cool, power-efficient drive that almost never fails has got to have them salivating.

I was at a talk a year ago with Mark Kryder and he said he didn't think SSD would make it into the enterprise/server class machines because of the amount of read/write cycles those drives go through.