FYI, Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10322886-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 I''m not sure how many people think 7,200 rpm is "high speed" but, hey, it is better than 5,900 rpm :-) -- richard
>FYI, >Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive >http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10322886-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 > >I''m not sure how many people think 7,200 rpm is "high speed" >but, hey, it is better than 5,900 rpm :-)Most of the "Intellispeed" drives are just 5400rpm; I suppose that this drive can deliver 150MB/s on sequential access. Casper
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:> Most of the "Intellispeed" drives are just 5400rpm; I suppose that this > drive can deliver 150MB/s on sequential access.I have the earlier generation of the 2TB WD RE4 drive in one of my systems. With Bonwick''s diskqual script I saw an average of 119 MB/s across 14 drives. Eric