[News] Seagate announces 15K.5 + perpendicular recording

[Groltz]

The Cheetah 15K.5 leveraged Seagate's R&D leadership to create the world's first enterprise hard drive with perpendicular recording. Perpendicular recording technology lets the Cheetah 15K.5 deliver twice the capacity of 15K drives currently available while providing a performance increase over previous generations by as large as 30%.

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[Bozo]

I'm afraid to look at the price for the 300GB model. It's probably your right arm and your left testicle.


Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[mubs]

Well, one will ate least have enough body parts left over to be "functional". 8)

 

[ddrueding]

Yay! A new hard drive that is actually faster in a significant way!

Now, where's the SATA version? Seagate doesn't make SCSI controlers or cables, so just put on a cheaper interface and charge the same amount.

 

[Sol]

resulting in 30 percent more I/O's-per-second and more than 20 percent faster response times than typical 3.5-inch 10K RPM drives.

Gotta love how the start of the article makes it sound like it was 30% faster than the 15K.4... It's probably a little bit faster but a 300GB Cheetah is still a great improvment even if it's not any faster at all...

 

[Mercutio]

Now, where's the SATA version?

As far as I know, Quantum was the only company that just swapped circuit boards to switch from IDE to SCSI. Were it really that simple, wouldn't some other OEM have a 10k SATA drive by now?

 

[CougTek]

News has been added to the front page. At least this time my response time wasn't horrible (I saw one news submitted by Mangydog several weeks after he submitted it. I was so late that when I tried to reply to his e-mail, his mail account had expired...Sorry).

 

[Groltz]

News has been added to the front page...

Who is Pariat??

 

[CougTek]

I thought it was you on Anandtech's forums. I got the wrong guy?

 

[sechs]

I'm afraid to look at the price for the 300GB model. It's probably your right arm and your left testicle

This could be difficult for some people to pay....

 

[ddrueding]

I'm afraid to look at the price for the 300GB model. It's probably your right arm and your left testicle

This could be difficult for some people to pay....

What would a woman need a 15k drive for? <ducks>