wife-said-no Posted December 15, 2000 Share Posted December 15, 2000 Anyone know anything about the new 10000rpm HDs? Are they worth the extra cash? ------------------ Come on honey why can't I spend some more money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBlair Posted December 16, 2000 Share Posted December 16, 2000 I put 3 Seagate SCSi 10K RPM drives in a dual Pentium Pro 233 server a few months ago, RAID 5 config. It was very fast, but I don't know if it's worth it for a work(play)station. Are there 10K IDE drives now? If so, unless the data transfer rate can sustain >40Mb/sec, I'd pass. c> ------------------ Who knows what evil lurks in the darkness of The Kave ? www.thekave.net Home of The Klipschmonster! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hytek Posted December 18, 2000 Share Posted December 18, 2000 the fastest drives out there now are the seagate cheetah 15K. that is 15000rpms!!!! scsi is an expensive interface, these drives require the ultra160 scsi which sell for at least 215 a card. as for 10k ide drives, NO. not now anyway. fastest drives are scsi. if you want cheap speed, go for ide raid using ibm deskstar 75gxp and a promise ultra100 raid controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofy Posted December 18, 2000 Share Posted December 18, 2000 Yeah those 15KRPM drives are a deal at only $2000 for 75GB. Or something like that.c> ------------------ I AM NOT ProMedia Tech Support promediatech@klipsch.com 888-554-5665 c> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seb Posted December 18, 2000 Share Posted December 18, 2000 ok i need a bit more info about raid, hoping you guys can help me out. i know raid stands for redundant array of inexpensive drives, or at least i think it's that. but i don't really know about its actual benefits and how it can be faster than ide. any of you guys care to enlighten me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPhys71 Posted December 19, 2000 Share Posted December 19, 2000 Well, you can set up the drives in several formats. "0" lets you stripe 2 drives, alternating putting chunks of data on one then the other really fast, which I think allows a steady stream of data to be recorded as opposed to intermittant recording with just one drive. "1" allows you to have one drive as the primary and the second as a backup, so the second just copies the first one exactly. There's no speed gain here. "0+1" allows both the striping of 2 discs and a backup for each striped disc. Obviously, you need 4 HD's (or more). That's about all I know about RAID. I don't know exactly how much performance gain you would get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofy Posted December 19, 2000 Share Posted December 19, 2000 If you really want the lowdown on the different types of RAID follow the link. RAID TYPES c>------------------ Hofy's Duct Tape Mounting System Support hofmonstr@rocketmail.com c> I am NOT ProMedia Tech Support promediatech@klipsch.com 888-554-5665c> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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