Western Digital working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor

[Zaskar]

Why is it a shame. Why put tons of $$$ into something that is far from mature, costs alot of $$$, no set standards, and the demand is low. Current HD Technology is proven, its cheap, and is profitable.

Its also a dead end.

[foch3 -USA-]

So is Petrol but that doesn't stop us from designing new engines.

[KoHaN69]

So is Petrol but that doesn't stop us from designing new engines.

That use less petrol than previosu ones.

Hard-drives are dead. petrol engines are dead.
IN the sense that there's not much you can improve on.

But why isn't anyone making hybrid drives?

64gb "cache" + 750gb FTW

[m^2]

That use less petrol than previosu ones.

Hard-drives are dead. petrol engines are dead.
IN the sense that there's not much you can improve on.

But why isn't anyone making hybrid drives?

64gb "cache" + 750gb FTW

There are different kinds of hybrid drives on the market today.
1. Laptop ones, with cache management meant to be done by Vista.
2. All standard HDDs have flash cache, much smaller though.
3. HDDs with big RAM cache.
4. Flash SSDs with RAM cache.

IMO the last one is the most promising and I really hope we'll be seeing some consumer ones...

Why aren't we seeing hybrids with large flash cache? I think that it would need much smarter management than drives incorporate now in order to utilize well, even VR has just 16 MB even though increasing it to like 128 would cost close to nothing.