good to know they are catching up on the size available. but these 10krpm hard drives are expensive it puts me off from buying them.
10k rpm sata drives ain't new. for example, the RaptorX which was launched more than 2years ago: WD Raptor X: Specifications
Yeah, they aren't new but progress on the 10K RPM is still pretty slow. They will need to reduce the thermal output and power consumption as well as increase the platter size and capacity before it can really go mainstream.
none provides a 2x WD 640/samsung f1 raid-0 vs a 300GB velociRaptor comparison. shame on them! former is cheaper to build, though doesn't offer lower temp /power consumption. but for about 100bucks cheaper, better performance and an additional 980GB storage space, why not? reviews, these days.. just plain sux!
It depends on how you define "Mainstream" I do a bit of work with high end graphic editing systems and they reguly have 10k and sometimes 15k rpm hard drives, and a large percentage of the webservers I work on have 10k drives in them (particuly the database servers). That said for home users I would have to agree with ChampionLLY, mainly because laptops are starting to use SSDs already
Mainstream as in regular PC, not in servers. Raptor helps the 10k drives to be sold to consumer, but it's too expensive for average joe.
Honestly, I doubt it. SSDs have a niche but they are unlikely to completely replace HDDs. Even if they can eventually offer the transfer rates and the capacity of HDDs, their price is likely to remain significantly higher.
Actually, I think it will.... someday. Back in the 5400 RPM days, I too thought that 7200 RPM will never be mainstream... but now, practically all desktop HDDs run at 7200 RPM. Okay, except for a few exceptions like the WD Caviar GP.
I think you mean smaller laptops like the ASUS EeePC? Somehow I don't see SSDs replacing HDDs mainly due to cost and capacity reasons.
10k rpm is in the market for like 5 years already. Any sign of manufacturers going for 10k rpm other than WD? Nope. Even WD is struggling to make a high capacity 10k rpm at affordable price. Personally I don't think WD is making a lot of money from Raptors.
Yeah, but 7200 RPM has been around even longer before Seagate made the first 7200 RPM Barracuda desktop hard drive. So IMHO, it's just a matter of time.
I feel that SSD will be affordable and fast by then. Look at the rate the prices of SSD is dropping, and the speed is matching the fastest HDD for the highest end.
