10 May
2018
10 May
'18
8:33 a.m.
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:29:06AM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
[...] So far so good. He goes on to suggest that such
a drum might spin at
1000 revolutions per second, i.e., 60,000 rpm. That seems amazingly high. I
could see it being physically possible for a drum of only 40 mm radius, but
it sure doesn't sound easy.
Looking at modern hard disks, I'm unconvinced we could even mass-produce
something like that today.
A 40mm radius is comparable to a 3.5" disk, which are generally 5,400-7,200
RPM. 15,000 RPM is the fastest available, but those tend to be low-capacity and
expensive, and are often 2.5" drives with a huge heatsink. We could perhaps
rotate a very narrow smaller cylinder faster still but then the capacity
suffers further, and the seek time would start to dominate.