Fastest 18 or 36 Gig SCSI drive out there, cash not an issue

[NicColt]

Well I'm at the point where I can upgrade my system to whatever I want, and I want to go SCSI. I just don't know what's out there so what's the fastest drive available for 18 or 36 gig drive. the scsi drive would be my main drive and the other sata storage. My system;

Antec 3700-QBE lined with Akasa Pax-Mate
and Enermax Adj. Fan in front and Vantec Fan controller.
Antec True-Blue 480 Watt PSU
Asus K8V Deluxe with AMD64 3200.
2 x 512 Kingston HyperX PC3500
ATI AIW 9800 Pro
3 x 160 Gig Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA drives
Plextor PX-708A DVDRW/CDRW Drive
LG CD-RW GCE-8320B 24x10x40
Monitor HP P1110 Trinitron FD
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro with Megaworks 550's

 

[Sideswipe001]

The fastest SCSI around right now is the Fujitsu MAS series of drives. Here is an example of it.

If you want to get something slightly slower, but almost as fast, and you don't mind getting a refurb, you can grab some Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 drives here. I have bought a lot of refurbs from this place and never had one go bad (plus they do still have a 1 year warranty).

 

[bacillus]

this fujitsu

 

[beatle]

Do you know why you want SCSI? A Raptor is neck and neck with the MAS in single user scenarios, but is approximately one THIRD the price (assuming you already have a SCSI controller).

 

[Vegito]

cool thing about scsi... 14 drive to 1 channel.. i got a u320 controller, 30 drives to the dual channel..

to hook 14 drives sata, u'll need that 3dware card which is just as much as a scsi controller and raid levels on scsi is much better than a 3dware/ide/sata solution

 

[Thermalrock]

Originally posted by: beatle
Do you know why you want SCSI? A Raptor is neck and neck with the MAS in single user scenarios, but is approximately one THIRD the price (assuming you already have a SCSI controller).

i believe he said money isnt an issue.

 

[MichaelD]

I own three of the 18GB MAS drives. They absolutely fly. I have one by itself on a lowly LSIU160 SCSI card. I have another two striped on a SCSI Raid card (LSI Megaraid 1600 Elite) and the results are very impressive.

Not only benchmarks, but everyday usage is just so much faster than IDE drives. SATA is getting there, but can't much good SCSI drives.

 

[Pariah]

Maxtor Atlas 15K II, no contest.

 

[Fester Addams]

I was given two of these.

What do I need to do something useful with them? Just a SCSI controller of some sort, I presume.

A PS?

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Pariah
Maxtor Atlas 15K II, no contest.

Read up...

 

[Fester Addams]

on it.
Gamer's seem to have the most opinions on HDDs!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I own three of the 18GB MAS drives. They absolutely fly. I have one by itself on a lowly LSIU160 SCSI card. I have another two striped on a SCSI Raid card (LSI Megaraid 1600 Elite) and the results are very impressive.

Not only benchmarks, but everyday usage is just so much faster than IDE drives. SATA is getting there, but can't much good SCSI drives.

How's that drive on the single card working? I'm thinking about getting a really fast 15K drive for mine.

 

[GoSharks]

actually you want the fujitsu MAU (maxtor 15k II would work too..). both are considerably faster than the raptor and are the fastest drives on the market right now.

 

[TRUMPHENT]

Originally posted by: Fester Addams
I was given two of these.

What do I need to do something useful with them? Just a SCSI controller of some sort, I presume.

A PS?

Don't forget the LVD SCSI cable with terminator.

 

[shinotenshi]

depending on the drive you might not need a terminator. most retail 68pin drives have terminations pins built in, at least my quantum atlas do. however if you buy 80pin sca drives then you will need an active lvd terminator.

 

[ionoxx]

Seagate Cheetahs.

I don't know about the 15K drives but i have 2 10K 36Gb drive and those fly like mad.

ST336754LW Cheetah 15K.4 37 GB Ultra320 SCSI 15K RPM 3.5 ms avg

this is what you should be looking at!

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: LED

Originally posted by: Pariah
Maxtor Atlas 15K II, no contest.

Read up...

Now read up on the date of my post.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

I believe all current U160 and U320 drives require an active terminator on the SCSI cable.

 

[Fester Addams]

Sorry for not being clear.

This is what I was given TWO of: Fujitsu_MAM3184mc.

I need to determine if there's SCSI/RAID controller for these Ultra160 SCSI/SCA2/LVD drives that's worth buying or not. I can bear spending only about $40 to get them on line. What's a good deal on just enough controller so I can boot and load programs from one/both of these?

 

[Zepper]

The fastest 15k drives right now are the Fuji MAU or the latest Maxtor/Quantum Atlas 15k depending on the benchmark you use.

The only decent SCSI host adapter that would work for them would be the LSI U160 on newegg for about your budget - SCSI RAID cards you're generally talking $200. and up. There is some software out there that can do RAID with SCSI on a normal host adapter but I've not tried it.
. You would then also need an LVD cable with terminator and perhaps adapters unless your drives are the standard 68-pin. If there is a standard drive power connector then the drive is 68-pin.

Here are some good SCSI vendors:

hypermicro.com (may offer free ground shipping if you mention www.storagereview.com - check the SR site for the latest offer)
centrix-intl.com
pc-pitstop.com (offers PayPal as a payment option)
scsi4me.com (ditto)
etech4sale.com
and I can usually find cables stuff for low bucks on eBay.

.bh.