Another SCSI Harddrive Question

[Maximus22]

I want a SCSI hard drive but for some speed and bragging rights. Should I spend the extra money should I get a 10,000RPM drive or just get a 7,200RPM drive. Any suggestions for a cheap or decently priced hard drive?

 

[resinboy]

I have a 7200 rpm Seagate only a few months old, if you are interested. It;s faster than an IDE 7200, and I am only asking $130.00 for it( retails for 340.00). I will include a scsi cable as well My Heatware id is Resinboy .

 

[Pariah]

If you're going to go SCSI, don't waste your money on a 7200RPM drive. The current generation of IDE drives will perform better in almost all situations over SCSI 7200 drives. If you can't lay out the money for a 10k/15k drive stay with IDE and spend the money left over on something else.

 

[Soccerman]

well what you could do is buy a 7200RPM drive right now, so and upgrade later when you have the cash for a 10K rpm moster..

but if at all possible, try to get a 10k rpm.

a 7200rpm SCSI drive is still better then 7200RPM IDE drives, becuase it's still oriented for low access time, and it also has the low CPU usage advantage. however throughput isn't as fast, becuase it's probably using a lower density disk (7200RPM SCSI drives are normally older then current IDE drives).