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*18gb Atlas 10k III. 89bux!!!!*

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GoSharks

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the SFBA fry's are advertising thed 18gb model of the 10K III for only $89. that is a seroiusly good price for a 10k rpm scsi drive. not to mention that this is faster than those 8mb WD drives out there...
i would get one if i didnt already have a cheetah 36es. 🙂
 
forgive the ignorant question, but why would you need a 18gb hard drive even if its 10krpm. I believe for server environment 10k might be an overkill, but for audio/video capture 18gb is just not enough. I had premiere projects that took up much more space. Yes it is faster than ide drives, but if for the same price I can buy 5 times as much space while being maybe 50% slower(note only 50%, not 200%). If youre looking for sheer speed, than you might as well go for LARGER scsi drives since budget is probably not an issue for you
 
I can daisy chain SCSi drive in my home system so a stack of 18's are fine if I wanted. I now have two seperate 18 gig drive's so I can clone one to another for ultimate backup Take 5 minutes. I get SCSI and server hardrive reliabilty. Keep my ATA channels rfee so each device CD-Rom, Burner are on seperate channels. Have faster drive access.


36gig scsi are too rich for my blood. I have 10K Fujitsu drives and love them...but one day a cheetah.
 
so you plan on daisy chaining scsi hard drives in order to free ide channels for your cd/cdrs? Seems to me an overkill for what a $20 pci ide controller card will solve..... I think that SCSI outlived itself for most applications.
I used to have a SCSI DvD & SCSI CDR, but that was in the day when burning otherwise would consume 50% of your cpu cycles....
do you need "server" reliability in you home system enough to pay 5-fold for it in disk space?
 
Originally posted by: vladgur
I think that SCSI outlived itself for most applications.
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I use a pure SCSI system with the exception of a WD 120GB 8MB cache drive. My SCSI Atlas 10K II is faster than the WD drive. I am really looking forward to the Cheetah 15k.3 drives which have blistering speeds. SCSI may not be as useful for optical drives any more, but it is still the best way to go if you want the highest performing hard drives. And yes, it is worth the added cost IMO. Also some devices are SCSI-only (like non-consumer tape drives).

If I were to do it all over again I would get SCSI for only hard drives (and my DDS3 tape drive). I would buy IDE optical drives. I do not regret having SCSI optical drives though (Pioneer DVD-ROM, Plextor CD-RW, and Plextor CD-ROM).
 
what about those that live on east coast we keep lossing out on these deals.

I just bought a poweredge 2400 server it has 9gig hd's iwant to replace it with a few larger ones anyone can help me find a deal like this. I have family and friends in NY, NJ & MD.

Thanks
 
WOW....That is a hot deal.....
But, I bought used seagate 36Gb 10K SCA for $100........

Dunno which one is a better deal.

 
SCSI is still useful in a datacenter enviroment. For one IDE drives are not nearly as mature for hotswap.. Good luck finding hotswap subsystems for UDMA that actually are reliable and work well, if you find one let me know. 😉

If I had a few extra bucks I'd jump on this quick. I'd get 3 or 4 of these, go RAID5 for just a little over the price of a 180GB IDE, but be WAY quicker by a magnitude of 2 or 3 times. Plus I'd be safe from a single drive failure.

I personally don't use that much space (40GB max, that's with a lot of crud laying about) on my home system(s). Data archiving for me is all done at the datacenter.. Just so much easier. Even then, I'd buy this SCSI setup, then wait for the maxtor 320's to come out and grab one of those for mp3/video/etc. storage that doesn't need fast random access.

My home setups are ALWAYS expensive(r) smallish drive for OS/apps, and cheaper large drive(s) for data archiving. If you think about it, you'll be extremely hard pressed to even fill up 40GB, much less 20GB if all you put on it is your OS and applications.

-Phil

 
SCSI is still useful in a datacenter enviroment. For one IDE drives are not nearly as mature for hotswap.. Good luck finding hotswap subsystems for UDMA that actually are reliable and work well, if you find one let me know.
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3ware.
 
For those of you on the east coast, you can get the same drive from Dell Small Business for ~$106 shipped (+ whatever taxes apply)
There's 15% off + a stackable 10% off coupon floating around

🙂
 
Originally posted by: helpme
Wow, that is hot... I would get some if it was socal frys...
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don't know if its too late, but socal fry's had these drives for $99 last weekend and this weekend. they probably clearing out for atlas 10k IV coming out.

vladgur, to answer your question, SCSI isn't for everyone. there are many advantages in using scsi, and the only real disadvantage is cost. and you are wrong in assuming that a person buying this would only use it, and no other drive. hybrid systems are very popular, with a small 18GB drive like this, only holding the OS and appz, with larger IDE drives, maybe even in raid config, holding data etc. the logic behind this is that modern scsi drives have killer access times, while ide drives have bad access times. putting your os and appz on the scsi drives improve performance of your whole system, and you can still buy cheap IDE drives for mass storage.

oh yeah, 5 year warranties and killer quality doesn't hurt either. IDE drives drop like flies, SCSI's hold out a bit better.
 
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