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Seagate's sixth generation Enterprise Performance disk drive ups its capacity by 50 per cent to 900GB and increases data transfer speed past 300MB/sec. This is a small form factor or 2.5-inch drive spinning at 15,000rpm with 300GB, 600GB and 900GB capacity points.The prior fifth generation topped out at 600GB and its sustained …

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  1. Michael Sanders

    Slower than SSD...and more expensive?

    They will never sell that drive. It was pointless making it.

    I think they'd do a lot better making a 2016 version of the Western Digital Bigfoot drive from 90's era fame. A large capacity slower spin drive. Though no body has the room in their case for something like that these days, even if it's 3.5".

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  2. MrRimmerSIR!

    Weird interfaces

    So, on the same day we have an article about an SSD that comes with 6Gb SATA and a HDD that uses 12Gb SAS. Does that strike anyone else as being a bit odd?

    We've already replaced one set of rusty (enterprise) disks with (enterprise) SSDs, and although going from SAS to SATA must cause a bottleneck, the huge reduction in latency is of much greater benefit.

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