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  • RobTang
    RobTang Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    Meh its just a typo...
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,847 Forumite
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    Just an additional 0.
    Twelve years ago, we used to work with hard disks on large Compaq servers which ran at 15,000 rpm. They cost an absolute fortune!
  • Mr_Toad
    Mr_Toad Posts: 2,462 Forumite
    John_Gray wrote: »
    Just an additional 0.
    Twelve years ago, we used to work with hard disks on large Compaq servers which ran at 15,000 rpm. They cost an absolute fortune!

    I remember those, the old Compaq Proliant servers, can't for the life of me remember the model though.

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  • itGuyUK80
    itGuyUK80 Posts: 81 Forumite
    speed is slow, 7,200 rpm+ but the faster RPM the more you pay...

    May be worth looking at hybrid drives.. Seagate 2TB Desktop 3.5inch 8GB SSD SSHD drive, but that depends if you don't mind the size if you where to put into an enclosure case.
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  • somersethillbilly
    somersethillbilly Posts: 524 Forumite
    itGuyUK80 wrote: »
    speed is slow, 7,200 rpm+ but the faster RPM the more you pay...

    May be worth looking at hybrid drives.. Seagate 2TB Desktop 3.5inch 8GB SSD SSHD drive, but that depends if you don't mind the size if you where to put into an enclosure case.

    A bit OTT, 5400rpm is fine for backing up.
  • itGuyUK80
    itGuyUK80 Posts: 81 Forumite
    somersethillbilly wrote: »
    A bit OTT, 5400rpm is fine for backing up.

    I hate waiting...
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  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    What's the advantage of an SSHD for a backup drive then? Money down the drain IMO.
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    John_Gray wrote: »
    Just an additional 0.
    Twelve years ago, we used to work with hard disks on large Compaq servers which ran at 15,000 rpm. They cost an absolute fortune!
    I remember paying £800 for two 18GB 15K rpm SCSI drives back in 2002, and another £300 for the Adaptec U320 controller to go with them.

    A tad expensive for most people, but the speed was phenomenal compared to the old ATA66 drives that just about spun at half that speed and had nowhere near the interface bandwidth.
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  • itGuyUK80
    itGuyUK80 Posts: 81 Forumite
    edited 15 November 2014 at 3:14PM
    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    What's the advantage of an SSHD for a backup drive then? Money down the drain IMO.

    Speed, as I said hate waiting...

    A few factors has to be taken into account... Source Disk and Destination disk. If different speeds or if using USB 2.0 then it really makes no difference...

    I regularly backup about 250/500GB per week, depending on what I'm doing and I do not want to wait hours to complete backup. So SSHD is cheaper and more GB/per £ just a little slower than SSD.

    It is horses for courses.
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  • st999
    st999 Posts: 1,574 Forumite
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    Meh its just a typo...
    It might be a typo to you but not to the person buying that drive and thinking it is going to be 10 times faster than his previous 5400 drive.
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