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06-20-2003, 12:34 PM
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15000 RPM & 10000 RPM Harddisk
HI
Does the IBM or other company new hard disk with 15000 RPM and 10000 RPM need any scsi card if yes does any one give me
Names or guide me to cheap cards or so
10x
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06-20-2003, 02:13 PM
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The Western Digital Raptor series of Serial ATA drives are 10K RPM and require a Serial ATA controller, which is typically built onto the motherboard. It's just now becoming commonplace, where as the 10 and 15K RPM have been around for quite some time in the SCSI world.
So, the answer to your question is.... It depends 
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06-20-2003, 06:16 PM
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Welcome to TechIMO  36 gig scsi 15k drives only cost about $425.00
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06-20-2003, 06:31 PM
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36 gig scsi 15k drives only cost about $425.00
| Oh, in that case then, I'll have 10 
Thanks, but er um shove it , I'll stick to SATA for that sort of performance.
Havn't actually used SATA, but heard some damn good reports...
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06-21-2003, 06:09 AM
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The price given is WAY too high. Besides, even WD's Raptor drives are a fair bit slower than 10k rpm SCSI drives, particularly in seek times, and even more so in multitasking operating systems.
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06-21-2003, 12:23 PM
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They are brand new Pete, give it a rest. It takes a while for the price to come down and the performance bugs hammered out.
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06-21-2003, 12:29 PM
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Yes, SATA is brand new. But, there is still a pretty big performance gap. More than just revising firmware is going to fix. But, it is a price/performance ratio. Most people arent willing to pay for an ultra 160 raid controller and a stack of drives just for better performance.
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06-21-2003, 04:26 PM
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More and more companies will start producing 10k SATA drives, that creates competition, that causes them to produce better drives. SATA will be better than SCSI.
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06-21-2003, 04:47 PM
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No it won't. This is because although SATA uses a modern high speed serial cable, it still uses the ancient ATA programming model from 1983. One command at a time.
SCSI disks have been taking multiple requests at once for ages now; this is what makes them superior as soon as there's multitasking (or just one task and a swapfile). Plus of course the twice as fast head actuators that are being used. And don't even get me started on drive reliability.
Like it or not, (S)ATA is about being cheap, not fast. SCSI is about being fast, not cheap.
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