[louwrentius]

There are also 15,000 RPM drives but they were exclusive to the server market. They were small and extremely loud.

Their IOPs and latency was even better.

Funny:

https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-launches-final-15k-rpm-...

[cerved]

"In summary, 15K RPM hard drives are less dense, use more power and have performance somewhere between 1/4th and 1/300th of a SSD."