Seagate Announces World's Fastest Hard Drive

[Bio-Hazard]

Seagate claims that its newest 2.5-inch 15K-RPM hard drive is the fastest in the world


Seagate Technology has announced what it claims to be “the world’s fastest hard drive” – the Savvio 15K with a seek time of a mere 2.9 ms. The new 15K-RPM addition to the Savvio family offers a number of advantages over 15K-rpm 3.5-inch drives including size and weight (due to 2.5-inch form factor), 30% decrease in power consumption (5.8 watts at idle), and reliability (1.6 million hour MTBF).

http://www.dailytech.com/Seagate+Announces+Worlds+Fastest+Hard+Drive/article5677.htm

[skootyloops]

Imagine having one of those in a laptop :grin:

[Gray]

Hell I knew they could do it.

I love my Seagate and I Love the 5 year warranty even more.

Can someone please make em even faster, cus my CPU still thinks that is Slow.

[zachig]

15K-RPM!!! :jawdrop: WOW!!! That's FAST!!! :grin:

Thanks for the link, sbrehm! ;-)

[DragonMaster]

15kRPM laptop drive... Now laptops will go fast!

[Kougar]

Sorry to dash hopes... but this drive uses the SAS interface. Not even sure if laptops offer that... ;)

[DragonMaster]

Well, I would probably not buy one of these drives simply because of the cost, but they or equivalents should come cheap in a few years and have more common interfaces.

[Kougar]

Yeah, cost would be a big issue. But then again, as you well know people already buy SLI notebooks... :roll: Those would need a drive like this!

[vfrex]

From what I have read, 15k is the absolute max for these spinning platter style hard drives. Anything higher exceeds structural/mechanical limitations of the materials. Seek time can never go lower. I would imagine that the future for speed is in solid state drives. Magnetic platter drives will keep the density/capacity crown while perpendicular and heat assisted technologies are explored and perfected.

[DragonMaster]

Who knows what they'll come up with ;)

[peti1212]

This is preety impressive, but I am ok with with standard speed hard drives with a SATA2. I believe it is 3GB/s.

[Kougar]

SATA 2 is the interface which is capable of 3GB/s, but the physical disk itself is only capable of 55-85MB/s sustained.

This small 15K RPM drive will offer much better sustained speeds and a very low access latency which is what makes it so special. :)

[skootyloops]

This is preety impressive, but I am ok with with standard speed hard drives with a SATA2. I believe it is 3GB/s.

SATA 2 and the standard harddrive is best described like this.

You have a 4 laned highway (both sides 4). Yet the hdd only uses 1 each of the lanes, because it doesn't have enough speed to need use for the other 6 lanes.

[peti1212]

Aaa, I see guys, Well that is even cooler than.

[DragonMaster]

Yep, the SATAII speed is 3GB/s, which, just like a network connection, means around 300MB/s max. This speed can be useful to write/read the buffer.