An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by louwrentius » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor
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Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by Trigg3r » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

Bit of a blast from the past, I did own one of these and certainly it felt faster than anything I had used before. Am I right in saying 10k RPM is about the upper limit for spinning disks?

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by RedShift1 » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

Unfortunately these drives had a high failure rate which probably didn't help their popularity.

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by RedShift1 » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

Trigg3r wrote: post #2

Bit of a blast from the past, I did own one of these and certainly it felt faster than anything I had used before. Am I right in saying 10k RPM is about the upper limit for spinning disks?

Servers used to have 15k RPM drives but that segment has diminished in favor of SSDs.

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by louwrentius » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

Trigg3r wrote: post #2

Bit of a blast from the past, I did own one of these and certainly it felt faster than anything I had used before. Am I right in saying 10k RPM is about the upper limit for spinning disks?

There are also 15,000 RPM drives but they were exclusive to the server market. They were small and extremely loud.

Their IOPs and latency was even better.

Funny:

https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-launches-final-15k-rpm-...

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by cricalix » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

Trigg3r wrote: post #2

Bit of a blast from the past, I did own one of these and certainly it felt faster than anything I had used before. Am I right in saying 10k RPM is about the upper limit for spinning disks?

15k RPM drives existed too. Seagate Cheetah for instance.

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by ccakes » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

I had a WD740 back in the day, remember them costing a small fortune compared to 7200rpm disks but it felt worth it!

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by louwrentius » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #3

Unfortunately these drives had a high failure rate which probably didn't help their popularity.

I wasn't aware of that, frankly. Do you have any sources for that? And are you talking about Raptors or Velociraptors?

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by cricalix » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #3

Unfortunately these drives had a high failure rate which probably didn't help their popularity.

I can't remember if they failed as badly as the IBM Deathstar.. sorry, Deskstar (https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326292-why-lying-about...). Those things were notorious for failing.

Re: An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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Post by Zenst » Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 4:20 PM UTC

Lovely drives - built a system with 3 of them - 2x74Gb one for OS and another for core programs and a 32GB one dedicated to swap/TEMP. Got well over a decade solid use out of those and only just retired the last of those drives last month.

They did do a later generation that could do 15k RPM but by then SSD's were starting to become trusted and more palatable price wise, though I dare an SSD of that ere to work near on 24/7 for ten years solid abuse.