Thursday, January 18, 2007
New speedy hard drives
Major storage manufacturer Seagate has announced that it will in its second wave of Savvio 2.5” hard drives speed up from 10,000 to 15,000 revolutions per minute.
However, it appears that the laptop environment may not yet be cool enough for the new drives. At this stage the 15K series is being billed for corperate use in RAID storage systems. Seagate says the new Savvios will run cooler than a typical datacenter installation, drawing 40% less power per drive while consuming about a third of the rack space, which is a plus for the air conditioning bills of many large cooperations. The company is already calling the 15K editions “the world’s fastest hard drive”. The new drives will ship in 36 GB and 73 GB capacities along with the existing 10K.2 editions supporting a 146 GB capacity. Many of the major computer manufacturers are raising their eyebrows at the new drives and hope to be testing them shortly.
