Maybe the last HDD you would want/get? HGST Ultrastar C10K1800

[Misanthrope]

HGST launches Ultrastar C10K1800, world's highest capacity and best performing 10K RPM HDD

 

 

I'm certainly exited at the continuous price drops on SSD drives to the point that at least for your OS drive it's almost essential, specially for frequent dual booters like me (trust me when you have to constantly switch between Linux for everyday usage and Windows for some games and windows-only apps that just won't cut it on wine, fast boot times are invaluable) but given the size and density of this drive this is actually damn exiting for a mechanical:

The C10K1800 is a 1.8TB drive stuffed into a 2.5-inch form factor with platters spinning at 10,000 RPM. It uses HGST's media cache architecture which uses a portion of the platters as a drive cache. This technology provides a boost of up to 2.5X in random write performance and a 23 percent improvement in sequential performance over prior generation 2.5-inch SFF 10K drives.

Now the drive speeds might seem like nothing for even the crappiest of the SSDs on a slow day, but considering the space on this I think seems like a better compromise than a slow hdd with some ssd as catch for those hybrid drives since you're getting actual speeds on everything there (mostly, but you could optimize your partitions) instead of learning algorithms:

 

The drive features a latency average of 2.85ms with a maximum sustained transfer rate of 247MB/sec. What it does offer, however, is more value in terms of capacity versus price.

What do you think, would you include one of this on an mITX small built like a Silverstone one to do away with bulkier 3.5 inch drives?

Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/57362-hgst-launches-ultrastar-c10k1800-worlds-highest-capacity-and-best-performing-10k-rpm-hdd.html

[dlf]

I'll stick to 7200 RPM as the fastest hdd speed.

[Vitalius]

Maybe. Depends on the actual price though. And how much noise/vibrations it gives off.

I want to point out that it's a SAS drive. Good luck finding a normal gaming motherboard with SAS connectors. It'd be epic for the M-ITX server motherboards though.

[Misanthrope]

Maybe. Depends on the actual price though. And how much noise/vibrations it gives off.

I want to point out that it's a SAS drive. Good luck finding a normal gaming motherboard with SAS connectors. It'd be epic for the M-ITX server motherboards though.

Yea I missed that so probably not going to be useful for most unless you get a sas controller so it defeats the purpose.

[Vitalius]

Yea I missed that so probably not going to be useful for most unless you get a sas controller so it defeats the purpose.

Still, it'd be nice for a NAS. Depends on price though, of course. Thanks for sharing.

[kuddlesworth9419]

SSD's are pretty cheap now. Depending on the size you actually need you can pay pretty low prices. For Linux all you really need is a 30GB SSD and a 500GB HDD for media. Or if you just use Linux for basic tasks like browsing and trying to learn how to use Linux you can pick up a 60GB SSD for around £30 which is a really good price. 

[Thorium19]

I'd rather use 7,200rpm if it's a storage drive, because I'm not going to use a standard HDD as an OS drive considering the price of SSDs now, not even a 10,000rpm drive that'll probably wear out too soon and is the wrong form factor, unless I want an incredibly rattly and noisy laptop.

[Mincygrape]

I'd be a bit nervous with a 10K hard drive, it'd break so much easier with less movement and I'd be worried it would just explode in my system.

[dlf]

I'd be a bit nervous with a 10K hard drive, it'd break so much easier with less movement and I'd be worried it would just explode in my system.

 

I'd probably more worried of the increase heat output with that speed. 166.666666 revolutions a second, vs 120 a second.

[deviant88]

And you want to tell me that 10k 1.8TB HDD is cheaper than a 256gb SSD for instance? dream on...If ssd stacking 3d nand will bring prices even further down 10k HDD will be history before it launches and hopefully NVMe once and forever as sata and AHCI needs to be discontinued it cant keep up with the SSD's.

Chips faster than any speed of spining platters,and will stay that way for ever.

[LAwLz]

It's not big enough in my opinion.

For mass storage you could just get a 2TB or 4TB drive. Will probably be far cheaper and perform well enough for that purpose.

For higher performance stuff (like a boot drive) you could just get an SSD.

 

It's cool that it ticks all of the 1.8TB capacity, 10K RPM and 2.5" form factor boxes, but I don't really see the point.

[Titanicium]

Couldn't really care less to be honest. After going SSD only with this build I'll make sure never to go back to ever using a HDD again, because they are just too damn slow

[Mooshi]

No thanks, I don't like obnoxious noises from anything spinning at high rpms. SSD + 7200rpm HDD is best combination.

[Fetzie]

Firstly it is a SAS drive. Meaning that if you don't have a server motherboard, you'll need to use up a PCI-E slot on a SAS controller, which start at something like 50 bucks and go up rapidly. And if you are using mITX, sorry but no graphics card for you because you only get 1 expansion slot.

 

Secondly, 10+k RPM drives get hot.

 

Thirdly, 15k RPM SAS drives have been around for years.

 

Fourthly, in my experience these high-RPM drives can be quite loud. SSDs are silent.

 

Basically, these are server harddrives. You'd buy like 8 of them and stick them in a RAID array.

[Socky]

I wouldnt buy this if it were for my own computer. I would buy it for a server if I ever am able to build one

[Biased Opinion]

I don't know about you people but i want to know how hot this thing gets because WD velocirators are 10k rpm and they are just a 2.5 inch drive with a big fuck off heatsink around them.