400gb IDE storage parts hit the shelves....

[fkloster]

Shown here.

good stuff

 

[Adul]

score!

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

What's surprising though is that it still has the 8MB cache.

I'd like to know if that's 100GB x 4 or 133GB x 3.

 

[MustISO]

Call me when they hit $200 🙂

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
What's surprising though is that it still has the 8MB cache.

I'd like to know if that's 100GB x 4 or 133GB x 3.

The other one Newegg carries in the 7200.8 line is 300GB, so it's almost certainly 100GBx4. I'll have to see if I can find a spec sheet....

7200.8 product line page

It doesn't say, unfortunately.

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
What's surprising though is that it still has the 8MB cache.

I'd like to know if that's 100GB x 4 or 133GB x 3.

The other one Newegg carries in the 7200.8 line is 300GB, so it's almost certainly 100GBx4. I'll have to see if I can find a spec sheet....

7200.8 product line page

It doesn't say, unfortunately.

Found this and it seems legit. It says 133GB per platter:

Link

That also answers my 16MB cache question.

 

[sharkeeper]

:thumbsdown: to the newegg price!

It's sad when I can walk into a retail shop and get it cheaper.

I don't think these are nearly as scarce as say x800 xt-pe's or 6800U's but whatever.

I'm told these models have three 133GB platters.

There is no real performance gain going to a 16MB cache probably because the optimisations necessary to get the performance increase aren't ready for both firmware, controller commands, and operating system file handling.

Cheers!

 

[JackBurton]

Is it me, or is hard drive technology moving REALLY slow? Nonetheless, 400GB is pretty good. I'll take four for a >1TB RAID5 array. 🙂

 

[sharkeeper]

Yes we're overdue for 22k SA-SCSI 298GB units. That and the 16X PCI-E HBA with 16GB DDR-2 cache. 🙂

Cheers!