Does a 10K RPM External HDD Exist?

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I am in the market for a Good External HDD. Something fast, would like to use FireWire 800 as my interface...

Thanks all.
 
well if u want u can put a raptor in a external case but you are limited to 300gb when there are 1.5tb drives coming out now.

 
You probably could put a raptor in an external like ALL4AMD said, the question is why? You would probably be limited by the bus (unless if it's eSATA) and even then the only application that 10,000K drives are really worth it is for high-performance OS disks that need fast random access and sequential read/writes. As storage, they're not so hot.
 
Pointless idea.

Even firewire 800 pales in comparison to eSATA, it would be a complete waste of a Raptor.
 
I had my 10K RPM Cheetahs in an external SCSI box back in the day.
 
Any 7200 RPM drive will be just as fast if you are limiting its speed with Firewire 800. Just get 1TB drive. Never can have to much space.
 
You can get a express card for eSata for the MBP. Then you can go for the eSata enclosures.
 
eSATA is 3 Gbps, which is 3000 Mbps, which would be 3.75 times as fast (theoretically, of course). ExpressCard bottlenecks around 2 Gbps, but still plenty fast. Of course, even the best drives don't really push SATA 1.5 Gbps, so it'll be healthily faster than FireWire 800, but only the top-end drives should actually stress that bus into the point where eSATA provides a performance benefit.
 
FW400 and 800 are like USB.

USB 2 claims to be 480mbps, never hits near that.

eSATA, could if the drive was fast enough.
 
Yes, but firewire doesn't have anywhere near the overhead usb has (about 20%) for starters.
I have actually seen firewire hit pretty close to its theoretical limit of 400mbps (on 1394a), where as I have never seen USB hit above perhaps 60% of its theoretical limit.

eSATA is nothing more than a shielded version of SATA with a stronger connector so it would be the way to go hands down. It will have no more overhead than SATA would.

USB 3.0 and Firewire 3200 will be an interesting battle.
 
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