Seagate's New 15,000 RPM, 600 GB Monster
Seagate today unveiled what could be the fastest hard drive on the planet: the Cheetah 15K.7.
Long accepted as the fastest enterprise hard drive on Earth, the Seagate Cheetah drives had one major drawback: capacity. But now, Seagate has upped the ante with the new 15K.7 Cheetah by delivering a whopping 600 GB capacity. While it's nowhere near the 1.5 TB drives that are out there, it's a huge plus considering that the previous Cheetah had less than 1/3 of the new drive's capacity. Did we also mention that the drive's platters spins at a blistering rate of 15,000 rotations per minute?
The new Cheetah 15K.7 drives will ship with 6 Gb/sec. serial attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gb/sec. fiber-channel (FC) interfaces.
Worried about durability? Seagate claims that the new Cheetah 15K.7 can run at 15,000 RPMs for up 1.6 million hours. To put 1.6 million hours into perspective, that's:
- 66,667 days
- 182.6 years
- 1.826 centuries
While solid state drives (SSDs) get most of the publicity these days, HDDs are still going strong. We're still nowhere near to hitting the limits of magnetic storage, and HDDs will continue to offer the best solution for capacity hungry consumers for years to come.
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Wrong. The days of hdd storage are comming to an end and not soon enough as far as I'm concerned.
It's time to do away with this ageing technology and move on.
I cant see why in this day and age some bod doesnt make an SSD that 'holds' its memory so to speak so we can switch on our pc's and instantly carry on from where we left off in our previous session.
After all, transistors are nothing more than switches that are either on or off. A light switch in your home is still in the on position even though you may have a power cut, once power is restored the switch is still on regardless.
forget hdd's look to the future and the technological marvels in store.
If I want 15000 rpm I'll watch Jensen Button of a Sunday afternoon.
afterall a transistor is only a switch whilst it has power supplied, with no power supplied its nothing. There are things coming up out there that hold a state with no power, but still in research type states.
in order to switch instantly on, you've got to move all that storage to memory and then feed appropriate states to the cpu. with a complete rethink of the relationship between cpu, ram and longer term storage then anything is possible I suppose, but thats a step change and would probably require a new OS concept, i.e. no long term storage, just ultra fast, high capacity single source of memory for programs etc (ram only). and perhps slower storage for media etc.
eddieseven.
Why don't you step up as 'some bod' and sort this out? After all, you're just sitting around waiting for all these marvels to turn up. You sound like a leech, ie one who sucks it all up, but who contributes nowt.
@eddieseven:
When SSDs are as affordable, mature and error-free as HDDs I will jump ship. Until then I'll be perfectly happy with my Velociraptor and 12GB RAM giving a perfectly respectable and acceptable start-up and access times, plus the 4TB SpinPoint 0+1 RAID performs excellently given everything I do is RAM-based.
And all that for about the same price as a pair of top-end SSDs (which let's be honest are the only ones worth buying).
When my demands require me to leave this "ageing technology" I shall do.
@LePhuronn
I almost happy with my much cheaper and lesser system.
My less than respectable and acceptable start-up and access times are matched by the budget and smoothed over by the beer I drink when waiting. Beer money that came from the cheaper system parts!
@waxdart:
I've ended up involved with a lot of media work so I've had to go large this time (just over 2 grand) but short of actual hardware failure she'll last me 10 years - hell the S478 P4 I just upgraded from last me 7!
Wrong. The days of hdd storage are comming to an end and not soon enough as far as I'm concerned.It's time to do away with this ageing technology and move on.I cant see why in this day and age some bod doesn't make an SSD that 'holds' its memory so to speak so we can switch on our pc's and instantly carry on from where we left off in our previous session.After all, transistors are nothing more than switches that are either on or off. A light switch in your home is still in the on position even though you may have a power cut, once power is restored the switch is still on regardless.forget hdd's look to the future and the technological marvels in store. If I want 15000 rpm I'll watch Jensen Button of a Sunday afternoon.
Nice Button reference! I've always been a fan, even back when he was with Williams, Benetton, BAR and subsequently pronounced as a lame duck driver... Who's laughing now?!
Yes you're right... But let me further expand for the folks. The REASON all this mechanical garbage (RPMs) is still spinning away and wasting energy and resources is a clever and old corporate model called: TECHNOLOGICAL METERING (to the customer) They aren't going to simply slaughter the cash-cow that got them to this point. They are going to continue building off their old technological feats with RPMs AND continue to (slowly) dev SSDs.
While that's smart and economically sound for THEM — it negatively affects the rest of us. We're still putting up with an aging technology, that's become merely a giant warehouse Vs the F1 of drives; the SSD. They (industry) are going to keep making RPMs as long as they possibly can. Unfortunately all that money, time and resource sharing is hindering the progression for R&D towards SSDs.
There's too much money, and R&D currently invested in RPMs to simply let them go, or to even phase them out. But that’s just Big Buisness for ya. Don’t let it affect you too much ;-)