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Fast hard drive configuration

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barbary

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So hard drive technology has left me behind somewhat.

I'm buying a new workstation and I know from experince that fast hard drives are the most important part.

WHich is faster raptor x 10000 in raid 0

or

SCSI seagate SAS cheater 15k in raid 0

In the past I've always bought SCSI but somebody is telling me that the SCSI setup is far more expensive but only very slightly faster for most applications.

I'm a developer and do complitaions mostly.
 
A raptor would be the best desktop solution you should go for, IMHO. Raid 0 really won't gain you any performance increases.

Moving to SCSI has it's advantages but probably too expensive. The gain isn't worth the money. I'd go for the raptor. Raid 0 might give you a boost but not that much. Not for the $$$ 🙂
 
One drive in RAID = no performance gain. 😕

The raptor will be most likely easier to set up and use in the standard desktop PC. SCSI if you're absolutely demanding the best, you could just get a PCI SCSI card.
 
It wouldn't be one hard drive but three I know the way I worded it made it sound single.

Just wnat to know how much faster the SCSI setup would be.

I don't care about configuring it somebody else has to do that.

I don't mind spending another 700 quid if its say 50% faster but if the diffrence is in single digits then I'll save the cash.
 
I don't use compilers, but wouldn't it be safe to say they're not incredibly disk intensive? Wouldn't all of the needed data be able to fit in RAM and then just need to be written to disk at the end? Disk access should be limited to (relatively) small files, right? Say 10 MB or less?

If that's the case, spend the extra budget on RAM.

Your exact performance increase will depend on your usage of the drive(s), but the speed increase will likely NOT be huge - certainly not 50%.

Look here for single drive comparisons and use that to infer about raid setups. The article's a little dated but will still generally apply.
 
I think your all correct I found a review at www.storagereview.com that says Raptor is as fast for a desktop as any other system.

rivan I agree (although current system and the new one both have 4Gb) but experince tells me that faster drives to result in faster compiles.

We have laptops with faster processors than some of the desktops but there slower 7200 speed drives nearly double compile times.

Thanks to you all for your help Raptors it is.
 
why not go the scsi fujtisu max series? pretty much the best hdd available and works very well for desktop access patterns unike some scsi that are tailored very much for server access patterns. not sure the exchange rate, but but running 3x fujitsu max series 15k hdds is going to be very expensive as you will need a pci-e controller as putting them in a regular pci slot will bottlneck it (as i bottleneck my 15k.5 seagate as it has a str of over 100MB/s, but benchmarks show my bench and str as being =, hahaha), but the max fujitsus i feel are better drives for desktop.

unfortunately i don't see a 50% gain by going the max series over the raptors though 🙁
 
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