Storage Review has put up a new article Capacity's Effect on Server Performance
In a meeting with Maxtor at Las Vegas' Comdex, we had an opportunity to pop the ever-present 15k question to Bill Clemmey, Senior Marketing Manager of Server Products. Bill's response, as always, was that while Maxtor was evaluating all options and had a team working on a potential Atlas 15k, their research indicated that the market wasn't prepared to accept 15k RPM product in significant quantities due to cost and power concerns. In the mean time, he argued, partitioning a 73 GB Atlas 10k III drive to utilize just the outer 36 gigs would address those who required the utmost in performance.Read more
