WD 20,000 RPM Hard Drives

So more than a year ago I remember there being a story or two about Western Digital coming up with new 20,000 rpm hard drives to help compete against SSD's. But nothing new since then has come out that I can find, is anyone out there in the know or can think of any news as how the development or planning is coming along on that?WD 20,000 RPM Hard Drives
Why not just put that development money into better SSDs?WD 20,000 RPM Hard Drives
[QUOTE=''Meejoe27'']Why not just put that development money into better SSDs?[/QUOTE]

exactly i can see the failure rate of HD's having mechanical parts moving at 20000rpm higher than the 360 failure rate :)
[QUOTE=''Meejoe27'']Why not just put that development money into better SSDs?[/QUOTE]

Western Digital doesn't have any SSD manufacturing capabilities. Actual SSD manufacturers is only a very small amount of companies, i think there are currently 3 controllers on the market and like all solid state memory most of it is made by Samsung. Also this would make all of their current magnetic platter technology and production facilities useless. Effectively they'd have to start from scratch.
Yeah, WD doesnt do SSD drives. They all ready have standard 7,200 and their raptor 10,000 drives, so it doesnt surprise me they'd try to make faster drives, I just wonder if 20,000 would be doable or not, maybe 15,000 is possible? 10,000 is still pretty fast and any faster would be great to be sure :D
15000 is definitely doable. It has been the norm for years for the faster drives in servers.
Wd just realeased their new line of 2 tv drives. Their caviar black model and their re4 models are also the fastest drives on the market. The are even beating raptor10k rpm drives by a margin. Don't believe me then go read all the benchmarks yourself.
I read a computer science paper a few years ago about the physical limit for CDs. All the CD drives (and now DVD drives) are pretty much at their max speed. Any faster and there is a high chance the CD starts to shred. They first got around this by having multiple layers, so you can access more data in the same speed. This works fine but the laser for any more than 2 layers becomes pretty expensive. Next, they started putting finer data. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray are based on this principle.



Hard disc drives are much the same. Eventually, they will get to a speed limit where the material can't withstand the force anymore. The only way to get around it with the same tecnology is to parallel more platters. Most drives already have some parallelism. SSD is the new technology. Once the prices are down everyone will be using it. Just like how the future RAM will be persistent. (meaning there will be no shutdown on computers anymore, only sleep)
If they use SATA rather than SAS I will be happy :) SAS raid controllers are too pricy.
The noise! At 20K RPM it would be hella loud.
I know about Cheetah drives at 15,000 RPM...I had two of them and they're very loud. I couldn't imagine 20,000 RPM.
Even at 20k best case scenario they would only be as fast as the slower SSDs. And they would cost just as much or more per GB assuming they experienced the same size limitation that the other raptors have had.There is no reason for this to ever happen either from a business standpoint or a consumer standpoint. Would be a total waste of time and money.
[QUOTE=''belboz'']15000 is definitely doable. It has been the norm for years for the faster drives in servers.[/QUOTE]

they already have them for public comps, just takes boards like the asus P6T7 WS Supercomp, with an SCSI port to get the bandwidth
yeah, they just need to put more delopment into the SSD's to make them more affordable aswell as having larger capicities.

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