We’re still very much in a storage transitionary period here, what with platter-based HDDs being so big and affordable and SSDs creeping up on them both in size and performance-wise. Western Digital isn’t giving up on the HDD yet — they think there’s still a little bite left in that old hound. But they’re giving it a boost.
WD is hard at work on a freaky new hard drive, a derivative of its Velociraptor line, except these new ones will be spinning at a hot 20,000RPM, hopefully to bring their read/write speeds in line with SSDs. And they’re supposed to be silent. The idea is that it’s a 2.5″ drive in a 3.5″ enclosure, so they can put extra shock and sound dampeners in there. No one really knows much about these things, but we’ll keep you updated.
awsome – i’ll buy a couple of these, a quad core, and nvidia card and heat my house this winter on all this.
This is great if you want a black-hole to form in your PC…
Jon
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HI THERE ABOUT TIME FOR A 20,000 RPM HARD DRIVE CURENT HARD DRIVES ARE TOO SLOW SOO I WILL BUY A SOLID STATE DRIVE SSD FLASH DRIVE A 20,000 RPM HARD DRIVE OR JUST BUY A BORG COMPUTER FROM THE BORG COLECTIVE RESTANCE IS FUTILE FOR SLOW PERFORMANCE DRIVES
HI THERE THE BORG USES A BLACK HOLE LAZER HARD DRIVE
HI THERE NANO SPHERES ARE GOING OVER 2.5 TIMES FASTER THEN LIGHT SPEED OR WARP 2.5 DRIVE
HI THERE I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMTHING 12 20,000 RPM RAPTORS IN A RAID ZERO AT TOTAL OF 240,000 RPMS 3 20,000 RPM RAPTORS SHOULD BE IN THE PS4 AND X-BOX 720 THATS STILL 60,000 RPMS POSSIBLE 300,000 RPMS MAY BE