What next for hard drives?

[crecomp]

Came accross this articel this morning about new WD drives.
I am sure they will be an interesting drive to work on.

http://www.crn.com.au/News/365642,weste ... newsletter

[fzabkar]

WD Black2 SSD/HDD Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_black2_ssd_hdd_review

The drive incorporates a Marvell 88SM9642-NMD2 6Gbps SATA port multiplier chip.

These chips appear similar:

Marvell 88SM9715/9705/9602 Product Brief:
http://www.marvell.com/storage/assets/M ... _brief.pdf

Marvell 88SM9715/9705/9713/9703 6Gb/s SATA Port Multipliers:
http://www.marvell.com/storage/system-s ... 7xx-PB.pdf

ISTM that one would work on the combo as two separate drives. Just tap into the SATA Tx/Rx pairs on the device side of the port multiplier.

JMF667H SATA III SSD Controller:
http://www.jmicron.com/PDF/JMF667H/JMF667H.pdf

[thatdellguy]

http://thefutureofthings.com/8345-tdk-s ... 20tb-2020/