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ST 9900 Guidance: Substitution of disk drives. 145 GB 10 K and 300 GB 10K

What is the suggested substitutes for the 146 GB 10 K and 300 GB 10K HDD?

Before going to a solution, let's think about the customer is trying to accomplish.
A few years ago, when 300 GB and 146 GB capacities were big news, the customer
would buy for two main reasons: capacity and lowest $/GB. If a customer bought a 15K RPM HDD,
they were buying performance, and were wlling to pay a premium for that performance. If you think about
it, given the same capcacity, a 10K RPM HDD was less expensive than a 15K RPM HDD.

So with the above in mind, the customer who was interested in capacity, with the least $/GB, they would move from
146 GB 10 or 300 GB 10K to 400 GB 10K and in the future. They would be less inclined to move to a 146 GB 15K, 300 GB 15K or in the future a 450 GB 15K, since these higher performance HDDs come with a price premimum because of their performance advantages.

Posted at 06:20PM Sep 18, 2008 by Kenneth Ow Wing in Personal  |  Comments[0]