![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
10K RPM Drives
- Thread starter Nismo
- Start date
Nothing has been announced or even rumored yet. It's quite possible that we won't see another 10k RPM Serial ATA drive for a while because the rest of the hard drive manufacturers have 10k RPM SCSI products already. I don't think that the market for such drives on the desktop is big enough.
DeepFreeze
[H]ard|Gawd
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2001
- Messages
- 1,699
is right...there is no need for others to invest in this. they make their money on Enterprise true SCSI drives..check de sig! 
The problem is that these drives are compensating for shortcomings of other subsystems of a computer. Hard drives should ideally be used for storage alone, be it temporary or long-term. Instead, hard drives are too frequently as caches or paging locations. Compared to memory--any kind of memory--hard drives take eons to read or write data.
What does this have to do with your question? Basically, 10k RPM drives are no substitute for ample amounts of RAM. On the other hand, a 10k RPM drive is an inefficent substitute for a slower hard drive. You don't buy a 10k+ RPM drive for desktop storage applications. It's for sustained transfers of large files on a regular basis, or for frequent data accesses by multiple users, things that desktop computers rarely do.
10k RPM Serial ATA drives are 1) overkill for desktops, and 2) inadequate for enterprise use. That's why we won't likely see a lot of 10k RPM drives in the next few months. The market isn't big enough to support a big 10k+ RPM Serial ATA push. Those who call ourselves "computer enthusiasts" can be the exceptions to #1, but then again we are probably willing to buy an appropriate SCSI drive anyway, or buy more RAM! #2 refers to the inferior command queuing capabilities of Serial ATA 1.0 which is a major barrier to multi-user performance.
What does this have to do with your question? Basically, 10k RPM drives are no substitute for ample amounts of RAM. On the other hand, a 10k RPM drive is an inefficent substitute for a slower hard drive. You don't buy a 10k+ RPM drive for desktop storage applications. It's for sustained transfers of large files on a regular basis, or for frequent data accesses by multiple users, things that desktop computers rarely do.
10k RPM Serial ATA drives are 1) overkill for desktops, and 2) inadequate for enterprise use. That's why we won't likely see a lot of 10k RPM drives in the next few months. The market isn't big enough to support a big 10k+ RPM Serial ATA push. Those who call ourselves "computer enthusiasts" can be the exceptions to #1, but then again we are probably willing to buy an appropriate SCSI drive anyway, or buy more RAM! #2 refers to the inferior command queuing capabilities of Serial ATA 1.0 which is a major barrier to multi-user performance.
Snugglebear
[H]F Junkie
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2001
- Messages
- 11,436
That and native TCQ on SATA isn't even supported on the drives yet. I still find it funny that the Raptors only support packetized TCQ like the IBM/Hitachi's have for years.