10,000 RPM SATA II Hard Drives

[Simsy]

Hi

I was wondering why there are 10,000 RPM SATA I drives but only 7200 RPM SATA II drives?

I was thinking of purchasing a 10,000 RPM SATA I drive to stream my VI samples from but don't want to spend the money and then in 2 months there is a 10,000 RPM SATA II drive available?

Does anybody know if there are any 10,000 SATA II drives coming soon?

[cm]

there are a lot of 10k drives around, even 15k, but almost all of them use SAS and only a few are 300 GB or more. SAS means serial attached SCSI and is backward compatible to sATA drives. see seagate's cheetahs ...

if you are referring to the raptors (sATA I + 10k) don't worry: the more important feature is NCQ and you would never fill the 1,5 Gb/s of sATA I with data ...
christian

[Simsy]

Thanks Christian,

I will go with the raptor then, is there any reason why there are no 10,000 RPM SATA II? Is it impossible?

[cm]

i think it doesn't make sense for the manufacturers to produce them ... remember WD have been the first (and for a long time the only) bringing 10k sATA drives to the desktop ... i guessed this was related to simply re-using their outdated SCSI assembly lines ...

the new technologies (perpendicular recording, change of sATA spedification having sATA III knocking on the door, change of chipset generations, ect) and the need for higher capacities let it seem to be advisable to move to the next level (SAS) immediately.
christian