Thread: Western Digital launches its first record company, the S25 2.5 inch 10,000 rpm

A few days ago, we announced that Western Digital was preparing to enter the market now. This is done today with the arrival of the S25. We are dealing here with a hard disk formatted 2 ½ inches, operating at 10 000 rpm. It is available with capacities of 147 and 300 GB SAS interface to 6 Gb / s or 3Gb / s. A 16 MB cache and WD is now listing a maximum sustained throughput of 128 Mb / s. The S25 displays an MTBF of 1.6 million hours. The noise of this drive are high, 27 decibels at idle and 34 dB over, it's not really a problem since the target.

Western Digital told us that he has begun shipments to the two largest OEM of industry. The U.S. Company then passes a new milestone, but the question everyone asks is what impacts the entry of WD in this market? The manufacturer accumulates successes in recent years toward the public, will he repeat the feat? Only time will tell...