Seagate Claims 2.5" SCSI Drive is World's Fastest

theraindog writes "Seagate has announced a 2.5" SCSI hard drive that spins at an astounding 15,000RPM. The Savvio 15K is the first 2.5" hard drive with a 15K-RPM spindle speed, but what's more interesting is that Seagate claims it's the fastest hard drive on the market. Indeed, the drive boasts an impressive 2.9ms seek time, which is more than half a millisecond quicker than that of comparable 3.5" SCSI drives. The Savvio 15K also features perpendicular recording technology and a claimed Mean Time Between Failures of 1.6 million hours."

Re:Breaking the bottleneck

[macadamia_harold]

The term "von Neumann bottleneck" was coined by John Backus in his 1977 ACM Turing award lecture. According to Backus: "Surely there must be a less primitive way of making big changes in the store than by pushing vast numbers of words back and forth through the von Neumann bottleneck. Not only is this tube a literal bottleneck for the data traffic a problem, but, more importantly, it is an intellectual bottleneck that has kept us tied to word-at-a-time thinking instead of encouraging us to think in terms of the larger conceptual units of the task at hand.

So that's where Ted Stephens got his analogy. I had no idea he was such a fan of the Turing awards.

Omission from TFA

[Timesprout]

The laptop holding the drive was itself spinning at 5000 RPM to achieve this figure, which makes it slightly difficult to use.

Re:Omission from TFA

[Hao Wu]

Spinning your computer equipments that fast would cause serious damage to components. It would not work anymore, and using it would be virtually impossible.

I think it is implausible that it was really spinning as fast as you say.

Re:What's so astounding about 15k rpm?

[drinkypoo]

You have 2.5" 15k RPM disks in production since 2002? Who are you? And how were you able to make such bitchin' hard drives in your mother's basement?

Re:the edge of the plate spins 50 meters a second!

[Qzukk]

For the metrically challenged among us, 180km/hr is 12025769.5 rods per fortnight, or really, really fast.

Re:laptop use?

[vought]

I'm not sure Serial Attached SCSI is going to work in your Duo/PowerBook 100 series. Kickass as they were, adding a disk drive designed and manufactured twelve years after the last Duo was already discontinued isn't going to help you put off that Mac Book purchase for any longer.

(And yes, I know about the PowerBook 150 and it's IDE drive. Shut up.)

Faster Porn?

[chromozone]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/30/magazines/fortune/ obrienseagate.fortune/index.htm [cnn.com] "Not so with Bill Watkins, the mercurial, salty-mouthed Texan who runs the $15 billion hard-drive king Seagate Technology. At a San Francisco dinner on Tuesday evening, he was candid about his company's ultimate mission: "Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."

Re:the edge of the plate spins 50 meters a second!

[Hoi Polloi]

As a person with an astronomy background I prefer to use parsecs/hr (0.000000000005833401930 pec/hr)