Quote Originally Posted by MartinuZ View Post
Wouldn't it be possible to achieve way higher transfer speeds and access times if you combined the data density of a 1TB drive, 4 platters (is 5 possible?), only use the outer 20%, and have it spin at 10k rpm?

200GB, 115+MB/s (from 0% to 100% of the drive!) 5ms random access times? :>
of course! I've always wondered why Seagate or other doesnt take just *one* dense-as-Paris platter (i think they have 320GB single platters now) & forget 10K rpm, go all the way - go 15K rpm - I mean Seagate has plenty of experience spinning HDDs that fast (SCSI range)...

single super dense platter
SATAII interface
32+ MB cache
15K rpm

= killer drive