faster than 7200 IDE drives?

Tue Feb 3 20:01:26 UTC 2004

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:24:09PM -0500, Lloyd Budd wrote:
> Is 7200 RPM the current limit for IDE drives?  Is this bus bound?

No, WD makes some 10000 rpm drives, that are priced at about the level
of a similar SCSI drive.  They come in 36 and 74GB I think.  Higher
speed means much higher prices, more heat, lower density, less capacity.

Lennart Sorensen
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