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Old 11-03-2009, 08:23 AM
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WD Enters Enterprise HDD Market with First SAS Product
WD, known for its hard disk drive leadership in the desktop, mobile and consumer marketplaces, today announced its entry into the traditional enterprise market segment with volume production shipments of its first 10,000 RPM, 2.5-inch, small form factor, SAS interface hard drives. The WD S25 provides up to 300 GB of high-performance storage suitable for both mission-critical enterprise server and enterprise storage applications, such as high-I/O-driven applications and configurations, as well as data centers and large data arrays.
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:13 PM
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What surprises me is that they haven't been in the enterprise SAS market up until now?
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:13 PM
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What surprises me is that they haven't been in the enterprise SAS market up until now?
This.
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:18 PM
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SAS and SCSI drives are still stupid expensive.

500gb 7200rpm SAS 3Gbps 3.5" hotplugable drive for my PowerEdge 2900 server cost $415 apiece from our vendor - the only thing coming from Dell is the custom kit that lets you slide the drive into the server.
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:47 PM
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Sure took a long time. Is this just an updated VelociRaptor?

I know WD bought an SSD company, but I wonder whats going to happen to all the other harddrive companies in the long run.
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Old 11-03-2009, 03:47 PM
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Well, that's because they're enterprise drives with better MTBFs and warranties. Whether or not they're actually constructed with tighter constraints and quality is another factor, something that anybody hasn't been able to get a clear answer on.

They are certified for RAID, however.
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Old 11-03-2009, 08:42 PM
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are they even trying to compete with intel's ssd's?
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Old 11-04-2009, 02:50 AM
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SAS seems like a technology that is a stop gap.... between SCSI and SSD


I am fairly ignorant on this topic, so i could be wrong.

Does it seem like SAS is a tech that will be around for a while and does it offer anything that makes it better than sata or ssd?
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Old 11-04-2009, 03:22 AM
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Wow. It's been some time, at least a decade off the top of my head, since WD was making drives in this segment (and man did they suck back then!). I don't even believe they had 10K SCSI drives, only 7.2K

Adidas4275, SCSI and SAS are drive interface standards, whereas SSD is a storage technology. They're not comparable like that. It would be like asking if PCI-Express was a stopgap between AGP and 32nm process GPUs. Doesn't make any sense at all.
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Old 11-04-2009, 05:44 AM
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That drive seems to be pretty much a Velociraptor with SAS interface.
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