10,000rpm

[AndreRIO]

does anyone know when are they going to start making 10,000rpm (or greater) ide harddrivers?

[Net Sushi]

*****, I'm waiting for the 15k IDE drives :P

[Aleph1]

Pfff....IDE. =P I just wish I had enough money to make IDE cram it with walnuts hehehe. MMMM MMMM SCSI!

[NDC]

Well, don't hold your breath, guys! I doubt that we'll be seeing 10,000rpm IDE HDD's for some time.... As for SCSI, Ultra 160 10,000rpm is already old technology! SCSI Ultra 160 15,000 already hit the streets. Soon we should be seeing Ultra 320 15,000rpm drives, they've already tested the Seagate SCSI Ultra 320 15,000rpm...


[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 01-14-2001).]

[NDC]

SCSI Ultra 160 = 160mb
SCSI Ultra 320 = 320mb

Vs.

IDE UDMA 100 = 100mb

[Roy]

It takes special hardware to support 160 or 320MHz. The best a regular PCI/SCSI adaptor card will do right now is 133. The extended PCI bus is needed to do better. That means a different motherboard.

RPM and transfer rate are two different things. I find moving from 5400 to 7200 RPM made a greater difference than from 33 to 66MHz transfer rate.

Then there's seek time ... .

[NDC]

Yeah, I would have to agree with you on that one, Roy. RPM makes a more noticeable difference vs. Transfer rate.

[capybara]

if ata100 is 7200 rpm, then what is
the transfer rate of a 10,000 or 15,000
rpm drive? is it proportional? if ata100=100mbps @ 7200 rpm, then does 15000
rpm drive transfer twice as many bps
[if the bus would permit it]?