Western Digital launch new 10K rpm enterprise hard drive.

[CougTek]

The S25 SAS.

Press release

Up to 900GB capacity, max 204MB/s transfer rate, 2.5" form factor, 32MB cache, SAS 6Gbps interface, 7.8W max/5.3W at idle, 5 years warranty, rather noisy with 37dBA seeks. No idea about the price. Much slower than an SSD, but also certainly cheaper for similar capacity.

They launched it yesterday, but I only noticed today. No one else posted it before.

 

[LunarMist]

Is that the next gen of Hibachi?

 

[time]

Ah, of course, I wondered when WD suddenly became an Enterprise heavy-hitter. Anyone know if this is true?

 

[ddrueding]

It could also just be the new Raptor.

 

[CougTek]

Anyone know if this is true?

The press release I linked is from WD's own web site. How could it not be true?

And I don't think it's an Hibachi design as it uses the same form factor and rotational speed as their older Raptor models.

 

[time]

How could it not be true?

Here's a sample of the truth according to WD:

"With a field-tested 2 million hour MTBF"

:rofl:

 

[CougTek]

Here's a sample of the truth according to WD:

"With a field-tested 2 million hour MTBF"

:rofl:

Still closer to reality than Seagate's reliability numbers IMO.

 

[time]

It's not the number that bothers me so much, it's that the marketing department confused(?) a theoretical projection with actual failures - 100,000 to 150,000 hours for 50% failure would surely be a more realistic field life (i.e. 2.9% to 4.4% pA).

And yeah, it can't be a Hitachi because it uses 77% more power at idle than the equivalent Hitachi

 

[LunarMist]

I guess not, which may be worse.

 

[sechs]

Hitachi's SCSI drives have always been crappy but cheap. It's sad that they're better than Western Digital.