Western Digital Release their first 10,000rpm 2.5″ SAS Hard Drives
Filed under: Computers, Storage | By: Jamie Pert
Posted on: November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Western Digital have now launched a new 2.5 inch hard drive, this drive is the company’s first 2.5 inch drive with a 10,000RPM spindle-speed which uses the SAS interface.
The drive has a capacity of 300GB and is compatible with 3 Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS interfaces, the drive can sustain a sequential data rate of 128 MB/sec, even with these impressive specs the drive still manages to boast a 1.6 M hour MTBF rating.
Other specifications worth mentioning include a 16MB buffer and an average latency of 3.00ms, these drives are aimed towards the enterprise market, find out more on HotHardware.
We have not yet heard details on pricing, however when we do we will keep you informed.
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certainly it’s a promising Hard Drive. yeah, it’s now available in market as i’ve bought one from http://micropartsusa.com