best harddrive for DELL workstation

[quanttrade99z]

Hello all

I'm picking a drive for a DELL workstation. I want the best performance and reliability.
I notice they have some drives with 15,000 RPM. Are they better?
Is this SAS stuff very standard? Or am I better off with using SATA?
It seems like a need to buy some kind of controller if I use SAS? Will this cause headaches?

Am I better off with a RAID 0/RAID 1 array of 7200 RPM drives, or getting some of the SAS 15,000?

I know these questions are a bit all-over-the-place...

<choices below>


Here are my choice


1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache? [add $306]


750GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache? [add $70]


500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache? [Included in Price]


320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache? [subtract $130]


250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache? [subtract $180]


160GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache? [subtract $210]


80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache? [subtract $260]


300GB SAS Hard Drive, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) [add $150]


146GB SAS Hard Drive, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) [add $10]


73GB SAS Hard Drive, 1 inch (15,000 rpm) [subtract $115]


80GB SATA, 10K RPM 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive 2.5 inch, with Data Burst Cache? [subtract $130]


160GB SATA, 10K RPM 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive 2.5 inch with Data Burst Cache? [subtract $30]

 

[mooseracing]

What are you going to be doing with this machine is the big question. Same thing goes for the RAID question.

IF there is going to be alot of data movement like a DB I would go SAS, but you will need to select a controller card. The Perc does a good job, just don't get an el cheapo.