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Compellent to offer 900GB, 10K rpm notebook drives

updated 08:55 pm EDT, Thu May 6, 2010

15K rpm, 300GB drive expected sometime


Storage company Compellent Technologies has disclosed plans to continue upgrading notebook drives with faster speeds and higher capacities. Speaking at the company's C-Drive conference, representatives suggested a 900GB 2.5-inch drive will soon be capable of running at 10,000rpm.

Compellent also said to be working on a 15,000rpm drive in the smaller form factor for notebooks, although initial capacity will be limited to 300GB.

The company has yet to provide detailed specs or launch information for the upcoming HDDs. A specific manufacturer also remain unclear, although STEV and Seagate maintained a presence at the conference. [via The Register]


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  1. fdduran

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    05/07, 01:05am | report spam | reply

    Are those notebook drives?

    The moment of inertia of such high rotational speeds would make them highly impractical for notebooks (a small to medium bump could make the platter touch the head).
    I think they are probably for workstations or servers where economy of energy and/or space is important.


  1. tonton

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    05/07, 03:09am | report spam | (1 reply) | reply

    Mac Mini

    Mac Mini would seem a good fit.


  1. Jonathan-Tanya

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    05/07, 10:09am | report spam | reply

    too little, too late

    Frankly a 15K RPM 300GB drive sounds like a very bad idea.

    I've worked with 15K drives for years, they achieve the 15K rotational speed, by lowering the areal density - that's why it tops out at 300GB instead of 900GB.

    But what you have to realize, by lowering the density you are giving back much of the gains, you get by going to 15K. I won't say its largely a marketing ploy, because you are lowering the random access times, even if you are barely denting or doing nothing with the transfer rates.

    But once you realize that you have a relatively small drive:300GB, but expensive, and you are doing it just to get a marginal difference in access times, you have to compare that to SSD drives.

    Because SSD drives obliterate access times....they are just astonishingly fast on access, in other words....but yes they are expensive, and yes, they generally come in smaller capacities - but they are choice to go with, not these 15K drives. You see, because they have the same problems - higher cost, lower capacity - and they solve the same problem - access times, but they do so in an OVERWHELMINGLY better fashion, plus they take less battery drain (early SSDs did not help with battery ,but more recent models do) and they don't have the vibration or heat of the 15k drive..

    If you are access time sensitive in your particular application, check out SSDs...do yourself a favor and try one...I'm telling you, there is no argument here, the 15K 300GB notebook drives will get SPANKED by a modern SSD drive.


  1. solefald

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    05/07, 01:46pm | report spam | reply

    i have no idea...

    why people still wasting their time and money re-inventing obsolete technology. Moving storage is the thing on the past. SSD is the way to go.


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