http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/ Engadget Comments for Western Digital intros 2.5-inch 10,000RPM VelociRaptor HDD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
WTF are you talking about? Why do morons such as yourself insist on spewing false information...not only that, but you do it with such confidence that you may actually convince some other ill-informed readers that you actually know what the hell you are talking about.

MOST laptops use 2.5" drives actually, the more informed people above you are correct, however, in stating that this drive is too thick to fit into current laptops.]]>Jul 24th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
Just remember, 80C isn't hot, if you are a thermophile bacteria.]]>Jul 29th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
Yes, yes it would be.]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 29th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136260&Tpk=VelociRaptor]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
Freaking huge drive otherwise...]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
GLFS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=459
BLFS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=494
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Seagate does the same thing with their ES drives, along with all the other companies.

Whether these are literally the same drives, but just sold at a higher price with features enabled, who knows. If Nvidia and ATI are used as an example, then chances are these enterprise drives are no different.]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
Cliffs:
*MTBF is a rating. 1.4 million = 1/failure rate, failure rate = 0.00000071
*MTTF is a measurement with units of time. ]]>Jul 23rd 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/With 1.4 million hours MTBF, these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive.

So it's hours.
]]>Jul 24th 2008 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is an indication of the average amount of time that will pass between random failures on a given type of drive. It is generally defined as the number of hours under observation divided by the number of failures.
If the product is in-use or powered-on all the time, then the MTBF is equivalent to the number of hours in a year (8,760 hours) divided by the annual failure rate
]]>Jul 24th 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/"The 2.5" WD Veloci Raptor is enclosed in a 3.5" enterprise-class mounting frame."]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
There is no speed* difference between SAS and SATA, since no current hard drive surpasses even USB 2.0's speed limitations.

15K drives are in fact SLOWER than 10K for conventional users. 15K drives typically have half the capacity of 10K and drivers. Thus, for a 50% increase in rotational speed (the extra 5K), the 10K gets 100% more read speed (the doubled storage density). 15K drives benefit servers because people aren't accessing consecutive sets of data on the server's disks. Instead, the drive's needle needs to be able to jump back and forth to access different data fragments. This lowers seek times. Seek times, however, are misleading for end users. 10 milliseconds (1/100th of a second) is NOTHING in desktop usage.10 millisecond delays compound thousands of times, on hundreds of servers, connected to thousands of users, is somewhat noticeable.

Cliffs:
•15K drives don't increase the size of your e-penor.


*Speed is not the single determining factor in regards to SAS vs. SATA. Viable cord length, durability, cost, and interface (WWN vs bus) should also be considered.]]>Jul 23rd 2008 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/I guess as the 'bit' moves under the head at 15K it becomes a bit hard to read them reliably? Not to mention it's noisy and hot to run stuff at these speeds (and heats makes it harder to write a magnetic bit reliably too, especially at such a short timespan) and it requires a sturdiness that's cost-prohibitive I'm sure.

]]>Jul 24th 2008 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/SATA = Serial ATA

Saying SAS and SATA are the same is like saying SCSI and ATA are the same.]]>Jul 24th 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
@Hung
Thanks for the interesting piece information but this doesn't explain why there are no 15k RPM SATA drive. Is it because of the voltage?

As for my "e-penor". Could you please stop talking about the size of my e-genitals in public, it makes me shy.]]>Jul 24th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
http://www.geek.com/seagate-15000-rpm-drives/

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/01/16/6650]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
Is there some kind of limitation from the SATA interface?]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/I have one myself, which I have running of a consumer level motherboard, via a cheapo Dell SAS card (PCI-Express slot).]]>Jul 24th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/
This is why

And they still should have a legit 3.5" SATA interface on the back of the 3.5" VelociRaptor]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/juzten
Daily Free Software]]>Jul 23rd 2008 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 23rd 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/23/western-digital-intros-2-5-inch-10-000rpm-velociraptor-hdd/Jul 24th 2008 9:15AM