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Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor

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According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers.

We have spoken to a lot of people out here in Taipei about this industry?s direction and one thing is becoming clear: SSDs are going to be affordable in the next 12 to 18 months.

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Yeah, and it'll probably come out in a month right after I've bought my Velociraptor, that always seems to happen to me.
 
Now i was just on newegg looking at the VelociRaptor and added it to my cart.

I decided to come here and do a search to see what anandtech members thought before i checked out since i dont trust newegg reviews.

And the search turned up this thread.

Thanks alot, now i dont know whether to order the VelociRaptor or not now. 😕
 
i'll believe i when i see it.

doubt anything like this will come out anytime soon. they just released their latest velociraptor = nothing new for the next year or so
 
This should be posted on the onion.

WDC has no 15k capability let alone working on a 20k product. 15k tech is quite mature and if 20k tech was on the table the big boys that have been making 15k drives all this time would've been talking about it. Total BS.
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
This should be posted on the onion.

WDC has no 15k capability let alone working on a 20k product. 15k tech is quite mature and if 20k tech was on the table the big boys that have been making 15k drives all this time would've been talking about it. Total BS.
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Yeah I agree this is a long way off, if it makes it to market at all.

For that matter I don't see SSDs being what I would consider affordable in 12-18 months anyway. At $400-500 for a 32GB disk, prices would have to plummet to be reasonable in a personal computer. That's around 70 times more expensive than conventional 7200RPM disks of decent size (in price per GB).
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
i'll believe i when i see it.
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Indeed.

Or when an actual official report comes out.

I doubt this is happening though.
 
Silent?, I really doubt that.
The power consumption alone if it be 3" or 1.8" HD wouldnt make it a candadate for any system setup and the only way to make it silent would be full fluid fill which would increase power consumption 3 fold and access times to grossely high.
HEAT!!!!!, Need to direct liquid cool the HD.

Its not practical today but I guess somone needs to do it just to say they can or did.
 
So this is how moveing-parts storage finally goes? I can see it in five years as a last ditch effort; 3TB 30,000RPM drives try to enter the market, death reports start pouring in as people are stabbed in the neck from 666GB metal shards due to the strain of such high revolutions.
 
They don't even have 15,000 RPM drive and all of a sudden they can crank out 20,000 RPM dirve before anyone else? That's hard to believe.

 
MXNERD, They do have 15K drives, You will find them in the SCSI/SAS listings, Been around for about 10yrs now I belive.

Aeternita, LOL, I was just thinking that after I was done posting.

SniperDaws, The later, Theres alot to deal with in material design for the platter surface and the data density ratio.

If it was worth it WD would have a 15K Raptor out some time ago but they dont.


 
Originally posted by: Lorne
MXNERD, They do have 15K drives, You will find them in the SCSI/SAS listings, Been around for about 10yrs now I belive.

Aeternita, LOL, I was just thinking that after I was done posting.

SniperDaws, The later, Theres alot to deal with in material design for the platter surface and the data density ratio.

If it was worth it WD would have a 15K Raptor out some time ago but they dont.
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I don't think anyone meant 15k drives in general, I think they all meant WESTERN DIGITAL made 15k rpm drives. Their fastest drives are 10k rpm.
 
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