I received my seagate 15.3K 73GB cheetah and the LSI Logic U320 SCSI COntroller card yesterday from LegendKiller..proceeded with Win XP install...what a pleasant suprise.
This is my first time jumping onto the SCSI wagon and probably one of the several fortunate ones on Anand. First i thought 5400 RPM drives are fast..then 7200 RPM gave me a surprise..now 15000 RPM...all i can say IS WOW..the difference is immense, you can even feel it by just opening folders, not to say do heavy disk intensive stuff. It ABSOLUTELY BLOWS IDE or even IDE raid away to hell. PERIOD. I almost jumped on the Raptor wagon but after finding out that they use sh*tty ball bearing motor, i was like pffff..forget it..big noise maker. forget the raptor..it stands no chance
This seagate is silent..total silent, even the seek/read write sound are on par with today's 7200 RPM drives. Heat issues? NONE in my lian li PC6085 case. There is even a maxtor 7200 drive below it.
Noobie alwaz makes mistakes..no exception with me, when i first setup the cable, terminator, SCSI Card and HD, i did it this way:
PCI SLOT(SCSI CARD)------termintator--------SCSI HD
and i was wondering y i am getting corrupt files at XP install...i actually freaked a lil..thinking that either the drive or card is damaged on transit from florida to toronto.
So when everything is installed, i ran some sandra benchmarks..i get a speed of 50MB/s- 67MB/s with 3Ms access time...dead on with seagate's specs. There is no LAG even when i am defragging and playing BF1942 at the same time
the magic of SCSI. oh well..all thanks to LegendKiller, i do not have to worry about my storage for years to come.
This is my first SCSI experience..so for those of you who are thinking to make to change, you won't regret it
The only downside? Just a lil slow at bootup..but once u hit windows..it is a fantasy world
AND YES..this SCSI is making my brand new T40P feeeeelll sssssoooooo slow....
This is my first time jumping onto the SCSI wagon and probably one of the several fortunate ones on Anand. First i thought 5400 RPM drives are fast..then 7200 RPM gave me a surprise..now 15000 RPM...all i can say IS WOW..the difference is immense, you can even feel it by just opening folders, not to say do heavy disk intensive stuff. It ABSOLUTELY BLOWS IDE or even IDE raid away to hell. PERIOD. I almost jumped on the Raptor wagon but after finding out that they use sh*tty ball bearing motor, i was like pffff..forget it..big noise maker. forget the raptor..it stands no chance
This seagate is silent..total silent, even the seek/read write sound are on par with today's 7200 RPM drives. Heat issues? NONE in my lian li PC6085 case. There is even a maxtor 7200 drive below it.
Noobie alwaz makes mistakes..no exception with me, when i first setup the cable, terminator, SCSI Card and HD, i did it this way:
PCI SLOT(SCSI CARD)------termintator--------SCSI HD
and i was wondering y i am getting corrupt files at XP install...i actually freaked a lil..thinking that either the drive or card is damaged on transit from florida to toronto.
So when everything is installed, i ran some sandra benchmarks..i get a speed of 50MB/s- 67MB/s with 3Ms access time...dead on with seagate's specs. There is no LAG even when i am defragging and playing BF1942 at the same time
the magic of SCSI. oh well..all thanks to LegendKiller, i do not have to worry about my storage for years to come.This is my first SCSI experience..so for those of you who are thinking to make to change, you won't regret it
The only downside? Just a lil slow at bootup..but once u hit windows..it is a fantasy world
AND YES..this SCSI is making my brand new T40P feeeeelll sssssoooooo slow....
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