SSDs put an end to Seagate's 15000rpm drives

[cobito]

The extinction has begun and, as always, it has begun with the weakest: on this occasion, the very high-performance mechanical disks intended for a niche market.

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[rul3s]

@cobito the truth is that it has surprised me....I thought they were no longer even for sale!
The next ones will be the wd Black.

[Nemo]

At the user level, the arrival of SSDs already meant the extinction of the famous WD Velociraptor (the second time that poor dinosaurs are extinct ) that worked at 10K.
The fall of the server versions was a matter of time, specifically the time in which the price/GB became reasonably affordable.