From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:30:36 -0500It'll be interesting to see if the 15K.5 is able to trump the WD1500ADFD in single-user performance, as the "lowly" 10k Raptor completely destroys the 15K.4...and all other SCSI drives, regardless of price or spindle speed. It does, of course, lag significantly behind in multi-user performance.I always find it funny when people believe that because they are enthusiasts/power users, their usage more closely reflects server/multi-user usage. Nothing could be less accurate. Power users don't use hard drives much different...they just use them more.If it is a single-user "maxifast" box, you'd be better served by a 1500ADFD than anything else ATM. RAID0 them if you want...though that, too, provides minimal single-user performance improvements for typical access patterns. There are select few situations in which STR is really that important. Video editing is the only one I think of off hand. Even then, two drives can often be faster, depending on what you're doing...Greg----- Original Message ----- From: "James Boswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [H] Seagate Barracuda 7200.10Yeah, it's a bitch on a cost/capacity basis....If I ever build a system on a 'goes maximumfast, nevermind the price' basis though.... it's so getting one of those or whatever the then equivalent is as the system drive.hmm, wonder if Intel chipsets in the next few years will be able to handle SAS disks... I know SAS controllers can handle SATA drives...hmm(If Intels chipsets gained the ability to handle them, you could drop one straight into a "Mac Pro" and stash your OSX and Windows boot partitions on it. hmm... )On 21 Apr 2006, at 13:57:200, Greg Sevart wrote:Saw that too. (actually, 15k.5...) The problem is that I've always preferred capacity over speed.750GB 7200.10 vs. 73GB 15K.5 for the same price...yeah, I'll take 10x the storage any day.The sad thing is that the real place where these drives will be primarily used (servers) take almost no advantage of the insane STR they offer.Greg-_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the real challenge for the 15k.5 is to defeat the reigning 15krpm
champ for server performance - the Maxtor Atlas 15K II, at least according
to storagereview. On hardware alone, a current gen 15krpm should be
marginally faster than the latest raptor, however their firmwares are not
tuned to desktop speed and would be pointless to do otherwise.
