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  • who would buy Exo 15E900: 15,000 RPM only 900 GB

    From pedro1492@pedro1492@lycos.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Jun 25 03:52:57 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    So it does 300 MB/s, whereas the bigger enterprise disks only reach 250 MB/s
    I imagine this would be used as a fast temp disk that gets a good thrashing, but then wouldn't you have an SSD for that?
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  • From Yousuf Khan@bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Jun 25 13:50:12 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 6/25/2020 6:52 AM, pedro1492@lycos.com wrote:
    So it does 300 MB/s, whereas the bigger enterprise disks only reach 250 MB/s I imagine this would be used as a fast temp disk that gets a good thrashing, but then wouldn't you have an SSD for that?

    Seems like it might be an older enterprise disk, judging by how small it
    is, and its speed. So it likely predates SSD's. These days I don't think
    we see much above 10,000 RPM, but back in the past they tried to go
    higher. I have a feeling that they didn't become popular because of
    their noise or reliability, or both. The fact that they still have one
    to sell you, probably means it's reliable since it's lasted this long
    already, but possibly it's noisy.

    Yousuf Khan
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  • From pedro1492@pedro1492@lycos.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Fri Jun 26 01:58:14 2020
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    On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 1:50:18 AM UTC+8, Yousuf Khan wrote:

    Seems like it might be an older enterprise disk, judging by how small it
    is, and its speed. So it likely predates SSD's. These days I don't think
    we see much above 10,000 RPM, but back in the past they tried to go
    higher. I have a feeling that they didn't become popular because of
    their noise or reliability, or both. The fact that they still have one
    to sell you, probably means it's reliable since it's lasted this long already, but possibly it's noisy.


    Yes I can remember in ye olde days, when you had a 42RU cabinet full of 15k disks, and you needed earplugs.
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