Source: Hitachi If the capacity of hard disks for the general public has exploded in recent years, the high-performance disk is far from having followed the same path. It must be said that the reliability is a priority on these products, while the capacity is almost secondary.
Hitachi wants to shake things up and proposes a disc spinning at 15000 RPM and with a capacity of 450 GB Available in SAS and Fibre Channel, it can exceed 200 MB /s read and write and has access times below 4 ms.
This disc could very well be installed in a Mac Pro with a RAID card but only if silence is not a priority. Indeed, it is specced at 37 dB when idle, and certainly much more when used intensively.
PS: For semi professionals, we are still waiting for that Western Digital to make its move with Raptor which took a big blow with its old level of perf
