Comment Re:Prefer faster higher quality storage then more (Score 0) 532
This will increase performance. If you look at the specs, this is on 4 platters compared to the 3 platters of the 500GB 7200.9. That means a 12.5% increase in areal density, which should give a corresponding increase in transfer rate. It won't change your life, but that's a sizeable increase for the release of a single product.
But the real reason to get excited about it is that this drive is just the first desktop drive to take advantage of perpendicular recording. I doubt that it's anywhere near its theoretical limits in this incarnation.
Not that I'd be upset if transfer rates suddenly went up 20x, but then I'd probably have to listen to you complain about how your life is miserable because your CPU won't keep up with the data you're reading from disk, and won't somebody just come out with a 256-core chip already, SHEESH. :)
But the real reason to get excited about it is that this drive is just the first desktop drive to take advantage of perpendicular recording. I doubt that it's anywhere near its theoretical limits in this incarnation.
Not that I'd be upset if transfer rates suddenly went up 20x, but then I'd probably have to listen to you complain about how your life is miserable because your CPU won't keep up with the data you're reading from disk, and won't somebody just come out with a 256-core chip already, SHEESH.
