The question is how much?

Also, I guess this sure beats those Velociraptor HDDs I've seen.

how much?

Try running a hard drive for 1.6 million hours. Just try. It'll be bad in 5 years or so.

Where, when, and for how much can I pick this up. Ill buy myself a freakin' controller card so i can run this in my gaming rig. Also transfer rates plz.

Sweeeeeet...

But, how fast will it load Crysis? JK!!!

(I just had to) You know some one else would have asked.

Cost?

Crysis?

Raid 0+1/5?

The question is: Why not a SATA version?
I know it's a stupid question but I would like to see one of these on my home computer one day.... (But for sure I will not spent on a SAS controller...)

yeah no sata? maybe its to slow for it (3gb cap)

how loud?

Are you sure the it's not the MTBF that is 1.6million hours?

Of course these drives are faster than Velociraptors, its a 15K SAS drive compared to a 10K SATA drive.

Plus this drive launch price will most likely be approaching $900 US.

You can still get a current gen raid card to run these drives as no one is going to buy enough of these to top the max throughput of 2100 MB/s for current 3Gb raid cards, for home use.

the new sata is 6gb though, I don't see why they would not include it as an option...

"$900?" might as well just buy an SSD for that much.

According to this site: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =HD-222-SE it is selling for £478.25 ex VAT which is $773.66 US dollars.

Basically, not cheap.

How loud are they? Will it go WHIIRRR WHIIRRR WHIIRRR, or must I purchase an SSD?

I understand what this article was trying to do, but let's not paint hard drives in too glorious a light...

and... price? xD.

Its called a server hard drive fellas. Your not gonna get a SATA connector.

If Seagate decides that WD is gettin too much love for the V-raptor, they might make a desktop version, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

SATA III is being released more so because SSD are already approaching SATA II limitations, you can take a Velociraptor and it still wont sustain speeds above SATA I which is ~150 MB/s. But all SAS drives are loud and they run really hot w/o excellent cooling.

Kezix_69 that link you provided is not a 15K.7 Cheetah as they havent even been released yet, thats a NS drive which stands for "Nearline SAS"

The 15K.7 model # is ST3600957SS

how do you test a batch of drives and get 182.6 years as an average?

I got excited about it when the big press release was made back in early January. No sign of them until now. I called Seagate about a month ago and was told they'd be out in July. There are two smaller capacity versions as well, according to the January articles.

"how do you test a batch of drives and get 182.6 years as an average?"

Where we're going, we don't need MTBF tests

Too loud!

You will never see SATA on an enterprise HD because the SATA command-set lacks several enterprise data-integrity features. And those features will never be added to SATA in the future because then SATA would essentially become SAS, and if you wanted that then why not just use SAS in the first place?

i own a 300 gb, no louder than a 7200

if you buy ~$300 i7 board you get a decent SAS chipset in there

At $700 i would just buy 2 300gb for 600 GB and raid 0. The 15.6 300gb is about $300 if you look around.

I use Cheetah's on two of my systems (36x5 raid5 and 72x2 raid1)... they're no louder than any other drive (basically not noticeable compared to the system fans). Performance wise they were impossible to beat until SSD's really started flying.

No joke, people are asking about the price, how loud, and the really important one...how much heat. I ran 4 15k 18GB drives in a workstation once because I found them and a controller cheap. I was using it as a regular desktop machine, put off way to much heat and noise to be kept in my apt bedroom. That and the red lights on the raid card made sweet night rider scrolling effects on the wall because the case side was off. I thought it was awesome, kept my girlfriend at the time up at night.

You will never see a SATA one because it will be around $1000 and still not be as fast as an SSD, therefore it wouldn't have any mass market appeal. Its only for robust business class servers with oodles of money to blow on hardware.

just need cost! Also how loud is it WD fast drive is well mounted is very quiet in fact usually more so then normal drives i hate to actually hear my hdd winding up.

No, you didn't have to. Neither does anyone else. It's old, unoriginal, and forces people who want to participate in intelligent discussion on topics such as this one to sift through the filler. I'm not trying to flame you, only encourage the movement away from the constant Crysis references... awww what the hell... In Soviet Russia, Crysis can't play you!

Um... the server drives actually do usually perform as advertised. Actually they usually outlast the useful life of the machine and their capacity. HDD failures are not as bad as it may seem, perhaps a 10% rate on standard drives (per year). In the 5 years I've had the current servers (28 drives), I had one go bad.

Instead of making the drive spin faster, why not install a second or third arm? That would make more sense to me, and boost the speed of diskdrives dramatically too!

This is for servers and usually come with a 5 year warranty.