How come 10k RPM hard drives aren't a thing anymore

[AndreiArgeanu]

There was a short while when Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate and Hitachi made 10.000RPM hard drives and I wonder how come they don't make 10.000RPM drives nowadays, would it not benefit read and write speeds? I understand that there's probably an issue with vibrations but still I feel like these products didn't last long and I don't understand why? They're faster than 7200RPM hard drives. I understand that SSD's are faster but they're more expensive and cannot reach the same capacity HDD's do.

[Jurrunio]

Not good enough balance between speed and capacity to win over SSD or HDD in marketshare. It's just middle of nowhere since SSDs arent that expensive compared to when SSDs are a new invention.

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

There was a short while when Western Digital, Toshiba, Seagate and Hitachi made 10.000RPM hard drives and I wonder how come they don't make 10.000RPM drives nowadays, would it not benefit read and write speeds?

Because there's just not much point. If you need speed, you buy an SSD. If you need capacity, you buy an HDD.

[Enderman]

1) SSDs are not much more expensive than 10k rpm hard drives, which were overpriced for their little speed improvement over 7200.

2) SSDs are MUCH more reliable than hard drives, especially 10k ones

3) SSDs come in capacities almost as large as the biggest hard drives

[nick name]

Don't forget that 7200 RPM drives from back then perform worse than 7200 RPM drives today.  

[Electronics Wizardy]

They do still make 10k hdds, and 15k hdds, but most of them are probably last generation. There sas only though. The issue is as everyone else said, there about the same price as a ssd, and worse in almost all ways.

 

Here is a 900gb 15k rpm drive for sale, its 300 bucks https://www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-0077-000A3

 

Thats more money than this 1tb nvme enterprise grade ssd from seagate https://www.newegg.com/seagate-nytro-960gb/p/0D9-0032-00157. 

[KenjiS9965]

The niche they used to fill was usually in big storage servers and stuff

 

Nowadays their niche is filled by far larger higher capacity drives plus SSD caching..

 

Keep in mind due to advances in data density and that, modern 7200rpm drives are frequently faster since while they do not spin as fast, they do have higher data density which means they can actually outperform the 10k drives....

 

I had two of them, one 150gb one and a 600gb one. They were really good drives mind you and in pre-ssd era I remember friends asking how i loaded into things so amazingly fast

[PineyCreek]

You can still get 15k RPM SAS drives here and there.  Consumer side, they kind of lost a lot of their relevancy and cost benefits with cheap and fast SSDs.

 

10K drives were what I used in early SATA times...WD Raptor and VelociRaptor.