Saturday, June 7, 2008

Western Digital readying 20K RPM hard drive?

Western Digital readying 20K RPM hard drive?Western Digital is in the early stages of developing the first hard drive to spin at 20,000RPM, alleged sources have toldBit-Tech. Fears that solid-state drives may overtake its business have led the company to develop a record-setting hard drive that will share the same design philosophy as the VelociRaptor; the hard drive itself will measure 2.5 inches across but sit in a 3.5-inch enclosure that both cools the disk and cuts down on noise.


The drive is still in mid-development and has no estimated launch date. Western Digital however is likely to aim the drive at both gamers as well as business users that would otherwise consider solid-state technology, which has both very little latency in fetching data and is both quiet and skip-proof compared to rotating storage.



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