20,000 RPM HDDs

[343guiltymc]

http://www.gamereplays.org/hardware/portals.php?show=news&news_id=378304
Holy shit........:(

[Sel]

Uhhh, great?

[LlamaMaster]

VEROMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!


Sounds like my kind of pow-WA!

[Rob Oplawar]

That's like saying "Super-fast floppy disk developed" at the dawn of the CD.
Classic hard disk drives are on their way out, or if they're not, they will be in the next few years. It's kind of silly to spend ridonkulous amounts of money on a high end hard disk drive when you could wait a year or two and spend it instead on something that's going to last 10 times as long.

*takes the time to actually read the article* Too little, too late, WD. I salute you for your years of excellent hard drives, now get with the program and get SSDing.

[ultama121]

This saddens ceiling cat.

[legionaire45]

I don't think HDD's are going to be dead for quite a while actually. The price of SSD's may be coming down a lot but the price per gigabyte is still much much worse then that of a standard platter based HDD. Meanwhile both the density and price per gigabyte of standard HDDs is coming down. We'll see in 2 or 3 years.

[Zeph]

2-3 years in the future and I think the sheer storage capacity of regular drives will keep them desireable for people. Look at flash drives. It's been about 8 years and 256MB drives are soo common you can pick them up for 5 dollars. That's a huge difference from the 150 dollars they used to be. Now, 4GB flash drives are about 100 dollars. SSDs will progress in price/GB at a faster, but albeit similar pace.

[DaneO'Roo]

What the christ is an SSD.

[Jelly]

Solid State Drive. It's basically a HDD but without a spinning disk, instead using flash memory.

[Llama Juice]

For storage uses a standard... "classic" HDD is fine.

There's still a market for HDDs so they're still going to make stuff.

But then again, USUALLY the point of a 2nd HDD is to just add space... storage reasons. That's all I ever did anyhow, anything I was currently actually working on was on my primary HDD while I left anything that didn't need much attention on my secondary HDD. (music/movies... stuff like that)

So yea, I'd rather have more space than more speed at this point.

[Rob Oplawar]

Now, 4GB flash drives are about 100 dollars.
jesus christ, where have you been shopping?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141264

[Abdurahman]

jesus christ, where have you been shopping?



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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211264

[Llama Juice]

I didn't realize they were that cheap already... dear gawd.

I remember getting a 256 MB one four or five years ago for $40...

[ExAm]

Solid State Drive. It's basically a HDD but without a spinning disk, instead using flash memory.
Flash memory fails in many areas. There's a new solid state memory format being developed that's better.

[Zeph]

jesus christ, where have you been shopping?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141264

Actually, I haven't been shopping for them since November.

[p0lar_bear]

Hard disks aren't going to be phased out anytime soon IMHO. Don't forget that SSDs lose everything when they die, whereas data recovery is possible with HDDs when they shit themselves. I imagine most businesses would prefer the insurance over the speed.

What I think they should do is make SSDs into RAM and get rid of these fucking DIMMs.

[Patrickssj6]

What I think they should do is make SSDs into RAM and get rid of these fucking DIMMs.
That doesn't even make any sense.

RAM data is more often being accessed than HDD data so as a result, your RAM will die because of the limited allowed writing cycles within a year or so. :)

[Dr Nick]

Sounds like it'd break faster.