Right, compete with something that has no moving parts for stability and longevity by making your own moving parts spin twice as fast! Awesome. What would really be great is if when it fails, the platters actually burst from the casing and bounce around your case like so many pinballs.
much like a gyroscope speed means stability. Servers have been using 15,000 RPM SCSI drives for years and years and they are known and some of the most stable and realiable drives to date.
The only obstacle I see that they have to overcome is designing the parts of the drive that can articulate fast enough and write and read fast enough to keep up with the drive spinning that fast. Which I have no doubts that they can't do it.
I own a 150GB Raptor, and now a 300GB VRaptor and love them both, only real issue has been heat, but having fans blowing over them solves that problem.
Solid State electronics has been around for a long time, And I have replaced a ton of devices that were solid state, rarely do I replace a mechanical contactor or relay unless it is 20+ years old and the insulation finally started to crack due to heat and caused it to burn up.
Mechanical devices are going to be more realiable no matter what you might think. Take a watch for example you could have a 150 year old watch thats been passed through your family that still keeps time, or you can own your knew digital watch that died 1 year after you bought it.
The problem with SSD is capacity and price. SSD can NOT compete with spinning discs until it comes within the capacity and price range of spinning discs. I keep saying it and I'll keep on saying it, it's all about spinning discs for the foreseeable future. SSD has a long long way to go before it replaces standard drives.
I don't think stability or longevity is a real concern if its going to be used as a desktop drive. People don't move their desktops often so the situation isn't like a laptop where constant movement may damage the mechanical parts of the drive. As for longevity, 7egend makes a valid point about SCSI drives. These drives probably have a very long life (as Rynth mentions). Heck, don't SSD's have a limit for the read/write cycles? I'm not sure but I was under the impression that if SSD's are used a lot they may last a bit less than normal harddisks.
Lastly, even if the platters were to burst out of the case, I'm sure the HDD cage will stop most of the stuff from pinballing around :)
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Right, compete with something that has no moving parts for stability and longevity by making your own moving parts spin twice as fast! Awesome. What would really be great is if when it fails, the platters actually burst from the casing and bounce around your case like so many pinballs.
Clearly you've never observed a hard drive doing just that. Well, let me tell you, my friend... uh, it might be fun to watch.
much like a gyroscope speed means stability. Servers have been using 15,000 RPM SCSI drives for years and years and they are known and some of the most stable and realiable drives to date.
The only obstacle I see that they have to overcome is designing the parts of the drive that can articulate fast enough and write and read fast enough to keep up with the drive spinning that fast. Which I have no doubts that they can't do it.
I own a 150GB Raptor, and now a 300GB VRaptor and love them both, only real issue has been heat, but having fans blowing over them solves that problem.
Solid State electronics has been around for a long time, And I have replaced a ton of devices that were solid state, rarely do I replace a mechanical contactor or relay unless it is 20+ years old and the insulation finally started to crack due to heat and caused it to burn up.
Mechanical devices are going to be more realiable no matter what you might think. Take a watch for example you could have a 150 year old watch thats been passed through your family that still keeps time, or you can own your knew digital watch that died 1 year after you bought it.
Mechanical Devices = FTW
Dude, the MTBF for a Raptor drive is somewhere in the region of 5 million hours.
Sounds reliable enough to me...
The problem with SSD is capacity and price. SSD can NOT compete with spinning discs until it comes within the capacity and price range of spinning discs. I keep saying it and I'll keep on saying it, it's all about spinning discs for the foreseeable future. SSD has a long long way to go before it replaces standard drives.
I don't think stability or longevity is a real concern if its going to be used as a desktop drive. People don't move their desktops often so the situation isn't like a laptop where constant movement may damage the mechanical parts of the drive. As for longevity, 7egend makes a valid point about SCSI drives. These drives probably have a very long life (as Rynth mentions). Heck, don't SSD's have a limit for the read/write cycles? I'm not sure but I was under the impression that if SSD's are used a lot they may last a bit less than normal harddisks.
Lastly, even if the platters were to burst out of the case, I'm sure the HDD cage will stop most of the stuff from pinballing around :)