15K drive in our T60? :D

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Kel Ghu · #1 Post by **Kel Ghu** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:55 pm

Seagate announced 15000RPM 2"5 drives with 2.9ms access time.

http://www.dailytech.com/Seagate+Announ ... le5677.htm

nyu3 · #2 Post by **nyu3** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:02 pm

15K drive in our T60?

Not unless they release SATA version.

#3 Post by **RonS** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:04 pm

It looks like it draws about 6 times the power at idle. The Hitachi 7200 draws about 1 watt at idle, and this 15K drive draws almost 6 watts at idle. But oh, how I want one...

pianowizard · #4 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:05 pm

Kel Ghu wrote:Seagate announced 15000RPM 2"5 drives with 2.9ms access time.

Wow, that's crazy! That's even faster than the fastest desktop HDDs!

#5 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:08 pm

There are different needs re: space and time, but me - I would not turf my 7200-rpm for love nor money. I am now formally in line in 2007 for a new ThinkPad with a 15,000-rpm drive

... JD Hurst

own6volvos · #6 Post by **own6volvos** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:10 pm

nyu3 wrote:
15K drive in our T60?
Not unless they release SATA version.

Those are SAS enterprise drives. Normally the fastest 2.5" versions were 10,000rpm. It uses the same connector, but a WAYY different controller. You would also be looking at probably a grand or so for that drive, if not more. SAS 2.5" drives dont come cheap. They were designed for smaller form factor servers, like 1-2u designs to allow greater number of drives in a smaller amount of space.

#7 Post by **RonS** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:15 pm

Even if Thinkpads (do any others?) had an SAS controller to run these drives, I'll bet these put out a LOT of heat at 15K rpm.

#8 Post by **tomh009** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:02 pm

nyu3 wrote:
15K drive in our T60?
Not unless they release SATA version.

Yeah. These are for blade servers ...

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