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    News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Unlike WD's example the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 doesn't use helium.
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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    why, in this day and age of brilliant computing, are we not getting drives faster than 7200 rpm, c'mon, give SSD a run for their money...

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    What a pity its a Seagate !

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Hope we some some progression down the SSD front as well. There's a nice thread on reddit frontpage that goes into it in detail.

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Quote Originally Posted by ionicle View Post
    why, in this day and age of brilliant computing, are we not getting drives faster than 7200 rpm, c'mon, give SSD a run for their money...
    Well as density increases, if the RPM stays constant, then the speed in MB/S will increase too.

    There is a certain mechanical imitation, 15k rpm drives generally have much shorter life span compared to their slower friends.
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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Quote Originally Posted by ionicle View Post
    why, in this day and age of brilliant computing, are we not getting drives faster than 7200 rpm, c'mon, give SSD a run for their money...
    Faster spinning drives are a lot noisier, hotter and harder to engineer, 10k and 15k drives top out around 1TB and cost almost as much as an SSD but perform a lot worse. SSDs are future of performance storage ..

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    5tb drives aren't even available for consumers in the uk yet and 6tb already. this is great. i wonder how much they will be and when the consumer models will be out

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    I would like to see a 3.5" HDD that has the facility to dock an SSD to it so you can effectively add your own nand to make a hybrid drive. With just a couple of platters for the HDD the physical size could be retained so that the combined drive still fitted in a 3.5" drive bay.

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Quote Originally Posted by Unique View Post
    5tb drives aren't even available for consumers in the uk yet and 6tb already. this is great. i wonder how much they will be and when the consumer models will be out
    Dabs are taking orders for the 5TB Canvio USB enclosure with a "mid April" eta.
    Quote Originally Posted by Myss_tree View Post
    I would like to see a 3.5" HDD that has the facility to dock an SSD to it so you can effectively add your own nand to make a hybrid drive. With just a couple of platters for the HDD the physical size could be retained so that the combined drive still fitted in a 3.5" drive bay.
    Going to disagree, what would be better was a variant of those 2x2.5" RAID bay adaptors you can get that did your caching. Then you wouldn't have to buy "special" drives, just a normal 2.5" HDD and a normal 2.5" SSD. Although if you were desperate to have a large capacity solution (2.5" drives only seem to come in 1TB sizes unless you want a WD Green) then like you I would have thought it physically possible to slot in an mSATA slot under the drive. Just as long as you don't end up with a nonsense like the WD Black2 that only works with particular configs of Windows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ionicle View Post
    why, in this day and age of brilliant computing, are we not getting drives faster than 7200 rpm, c'mon, give SSD a run for their money...
    To compare performancewise with a midrange SSD like a Samsung 840 Evo, a spinning disk would need to run at 5 million RPM.

    Physics gets a bit weird at 5,000,000 RPM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    To compare performancewise with a midrange SSD like a Samsung 840 Evo, a spinning disk would need to run at 5 million RPM.
    5M RPM - good luck finding a bearing that'd stand that kind of abuse. But if you put a couple of those in your tower wouldn't the torque generated be able to start a slow rotation of your PC?
    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    Physics gets a bit weird at 5,000,000 RPM.
    What, you mean physics isn't weird at rest too?

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    5M RPM - good luck finding a bearing that'd stand that kind of abuse. But if you put a couple of those in your tower wouldn't the torque generated be able to start a slow rotation of your PC?
    I'm pretty sure it'd be like a crashing Tardis...

    When I've pulled 10K/15K drives from hot swap enclosures if pull em quick can feel the torque of the still spinning platters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
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    Exactly, judging by the changes to their warranty they have no faith in their own products, so why would I?

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    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    5M RPM - good luck finding a bearing that'd stand that kind of abuse. But if you put a couple of those in your tower wouldn't the torque generated be able to start a slow rotation of your PC?

    What, you mean physics isn't weird at rest too?
    The comparison point is 7200 RPM. Or even 15000 RPM.

    For those who want to check my sums, an Evo can do 98k IOPS random reads, and a latest-gen 7200RPM WD Black can do 140. Scale linearly because maths.

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    Re: News - Seagate announces shipping of world's fastest 6TB hard drive

    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Unique View Post
    5tb drives aren't even available for consumers in the uk yet and 6tb already. this is great. i wonder how much they will be and when the consumer models will be out
    Dabs are taking orders for the 5TB Canvio USB enclosure with a "mid April" eta.
    yeah I saw that email thus the comment. 6tb announced before 5tb ships. the 5tb is about £200 for the external unit. which means opening it up and getting no warranty or paying a chunk more for an internal model. so how much will the 6tb be and when will we get it?

    to think I can replace 3x2tb drives with one single 6tb drive, increasing my maximum capacity inside a case by a considerable chunk. even going 4tb to 6tb is pretty great

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