Seagate announces 15000 RPM 2.5" HDD

[gator]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/n ... 5in-HDD/p1

Imagine the heat (and noise)!

[tomh009]

The noise, yes -- but the heat is supposed to be less than in 3.5" 15K drives. And that matters because it's a SAS drive, not SATA, so it'll be finding its way into blade servers and RAID arrays. I can't think of any laptops with SAS, so those would be totally out for the time being.

I think trustedreviews.com missed a key word from their article:

Surprisingly Seagate says it will initially not target laptops ...

With SAS and 5.8W at idle, this is definitely not a mobile drive. Their reviewer amazingly does not seem to realize that ...