Western Digital Working On a 20.000 RPM Drive

jmke · 17th August 2008, 11:35

The new drive will be very similar to the recently-released VelociRaptor, in that it’ll be a 2.5in drive with a custom 3.5in housing built around it. Details are incredibly light at this stage, given that the product is still in development, and we don’t even have a release timeframe at the moment.

However, our sources said that the drive will be ‘silent’ – that’s the last thing I would have expected from a drive with platters spinning at 20,000 RPM. Western Digital is apparently working on silencing the beast by improving the housing technology, which will now not just act as a heatsink, but also as a noise cancelling device. We’d also hope that the drive enclosure has some vibration dampening technology as well, because that’s also likely to be a problem given the high spindle speeds.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06...0-rpm-raptor/1

17th August 2008, 14:11

It makes me think about the Intel in it's P4 era ... continuously increasing the frequency to increase the performance

... so I am waiting for a 50k rpm drive

17th August 2008, 11:35	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Western Digital Working On a 20.000 RPM Drive The new drive will be very similar to the recently-released VelociRaptor, in that it’ll be a 2.5in drive with a custom 3.5in housing built around it. Details are incredibly light at this stage, given that the product is still in development, and we don’t even have a release timeframe at the moment. However, our sources said that the drive will be ‘silent’ – that’s the last thing I would have expected from a drive with platters spinning at 20,000 RPM. Western Digital is apparently working on silencing the beast by improving the housing technology, which will now not just act as a heatsink, but also as a noise cancelling device. We’d also hope that the drive enclosure has some vibration dampening technology as well, because that’s also likely to be a problem given the high spindle speeds. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06...0-rpm-raptor/1 __________________

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17th August 2008, 14:11	#2
wutske Posts: n/a	It makes me think about the Intel in it's P4 era ... continuously increasing the frequency to increase the performance ... so I am waiting for a 50k rpm drive