Fastest hard drive avaiable?

[Moffat Cafe]

Message title says it all.
Thanks

 

[Wentelteefje]

If you mean one that can simply be connected through a SATA connection, it would prolly be the Western Digital Raptor 150GB... Still a tad faster than the 74GB versions...

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

15K SCSI drives are fastest, but they're not meant for desktops. Among desktop models, the Western Digital Raptor drives are fastest.

 

[Rubycon]

SATA for desktops

SCSI for workstations and servers

 

[OdiN]

Here you go:

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

 

[Wentelteefje]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Here you go:

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

LOL You win...

 

[foodfightr]

Originally posted by: Wentelteefje

Originally posted by: OdiN
Here you go:

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

LOL You win...

The fastest storage is solid state memory with a battery back up. (See Gigabyte iRAM) This setup will run you roughly $400 for 4GB, I don't even want to know what the Tera-RamSan will cost.

If you want a hard drive, the fastest hard drive is the Maxtor Atlas II.

A quick visit to the leaderboard at storagereview.com will point you in the right direction:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/leaderboard.html

When it comes to the fastest of the fast, Maxtor's 147 GB Atlas 15K II remains untouchable. The drive offers significant performance benefits over the competition under light to moderate loads and maintains a tenacious lead under the heaviest of queue depths.

 

[theMan]

the fastest are solid state drives, but get ready to pay tens of thousands for those. get a seagate cheetah 15k scsi drive.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: foodfightr

Originally posted by: Wentelteefje

Originally posted by: OdiN
Here you go:

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

LOL You win...

The fastest storage is solid state memory with a battery back up. (See Gigabyte iRAM) This setup will run you roughly $400 for 4GB, I don't even want to know what the Tera-RamSan will cost.

If you want a hard drive, the fastest hard drive is the Maxtor Atlas II.

A quick visit to the leaderboard at storagereview.com will point you in the right direction:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/leaderboard.html

When it comes to the fastest of the fast, Maxtor's 147 GB Atlas 15K II remains untouchable. The drive offers significant performance benefits over the competition under light to moderate loads and maintains a tenacious lead under the heaviest of queue depths.

The Tera-RamSan runs in fibre channel as well so...but anyway...probably one of the fastest storage devices out there. Just not for home use

 

[jimbob200521]

yet another vote for the 150gb raptor

 

[cKGunslinger]

Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

In one word...no.

I have to credit Seagate for their innovative shock protection designs and great warranty, but the 7200.9 is a a D-U-D when it comes to performance. Checkout Storage Review and see the comparisons. Hitachi T7K500 and Western Digital 4000KD top the massive capacity + speed charts. At 150 Gigs, the fast harddrive for desktop usage on the planet is the new Raptor iteration. It will annihilate a 15K Cheetah on the desktop because the Cheetah is solely optimized for server environments.

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

In one word...no.

I have to credit Seagate for their innovative shock protection designs and great warranty, but the 7200.9 is a a D-U-D when it comes to performance. Checkout Storage Review and see the comparisons. Hitachi T7K500 and Western Digital 4000KD top the massive capacity + speed charts. At 150 Gigs, the fast harddrive for desktop usage on the planet is the new Raptor iteration. It will annihilate a 15K Cheetah on the desktop because the Cheetah is solely optimized for server environments.

I'm assuming your using this benchmark. Personally, if you have the cash and a PCI-X equipped board for a good SCSI controller, I'd go with SCSI over the raptor every day of the week.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: ND40oz
I'm assuming your using this benchmark. Personally, if you have the cash and a PCI-X equipped board for a good SCSI controller, I'd go with SCSI over the raptor every day of the week.

QFT.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Here you go:

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

Awesome! :laugh:

I love how people are like, i want the best of this that can be bought...till they see the price.
Then suddenly the question is, i want the best that can be bought...for under so-n-so price :laugh:

 

[ribbon13]

Well, if you can't afford a RAMSAN, and want IOPs/server performance you could step down to an

Areca ARC-1230 upgraded to 1GB
and
twelve M-sys FFD-25-SATA-128-F in RAID5/6

The STRs will only be ~400MB/s but the acess time will be ~0.1ms after controller latency.

or if you want maximum STRs/desktop performance get twelve WD1500ADFDs instead. This should hit around 720MB/s+

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: ND40oz

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

In one word...no.

I have to credit Seagate for their innovative shock protection designs and great warranty, but the 7200.9 is a a D-U-D when it comes to performance. Checkout Storage Review and see the comparisons. Hitachi T7K500 and Western Digital 4000KD top the massive capacity + speed charts. At 150 Gigs, the fast harddrive for desktop usage on the planet is the new Raptor iteration. It will annihilate a 15K Cheetah on the desktop because the Cheetah is solely optimized for server environments.

I'm assuming your using this benchmark. Personally, if you have the cash and a PCI-X equipped board for a good SCSI controller, I'd go with SCSI over the raptor every day of the week.

just get a single 15k rpm u320 hdd on a u160 controller in a 32bit pci slot, won't fully saturate the bus, but pretty close and very cost effective for the speed.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: ND40oz

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

In one word...no.

I have to credit Seagate for their innovative shock protection designs and great warranty, but the 7200.9 is a a D-U-D when it comes to performance. Checkout Storage Review and see the comparisons. Hitachi T7K500 and Western Digital 4000KD top the massive capacity + speed charts. At 150 Gigs, the fast harddrive for desktop usage on the planet is the new Raptor iteration. It will annihilate a 15K Cheetah on the desktop because the Cheetah is solely optimized for server environments.

I'm assuming your using this benchmark. Personally, if you have the cash and a PCI-X equipped board for a good SCSI controller, I'd go with SCSI over the raptor every day of the week.

Yea, you could do that and end up with a slower drive. PCI-X will have 0 effect on single drive performance. For a desktop, the new Raptor is the fastest drive on the planet, with the Fujitsu MAU the only drive that comes close.

 

[Moffat Cafe]

Wading through this thread was fun and very informative. I now join hands with the WD 4000KD crowd

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Are the Seagate Barracuda drives still considered high-performance drives? I know that are a good deal cheaper per GB than the Raptors, and used to offer a nice performance boost over standard 7200rpm IDE drives.

In one word...no.

I have to credit Seagate for their innovative shock protection designs and great warranty, but the 7200.9 is a a D-U-D when it comes to performance. Checkout Storage Review and see the comparisons. Hitachi T7K500 and Western Digital 4000KD top the massive capacity + speed charts. At 150 Gigs, the fast harddrive for desktop usage on the planet is the new Raptor iteration. It will annihilate a 15K Cheetah on the desktop because the Cheetah is solely optimized for server environments.

Interesting, the reason I ask is because I'm putting together a new PC next month, and want to optimise it for maximum World of Warcraft performance. My current system's bottlenecks are RAM and HD access during level/instance loads. In striving to keep costs down, I've considered both the 36GB Raptor (~$100) and the 2x40GB Seagate 7200.9 drives in a raid 0 config. (~$120) I have a large drive for applications and data, so size is not much of a concern, as I only intend to put the OS, swap, and a few high-perf applications on the faster drive(s).

Judging by the WoW performance on this page, the barracudas do not seem to be too bad, especially considering the price (price is king for this upgrade cycle.) Do you have an alternative suggestion for a ~$100 drive setup?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Well, if you can't afford a RAMSAN, and want IOPs/server performance you could step down to an

Areca ARC-1230 upgraded to 1GB
and
twelve M-sys FFD-25-SATA-128-F in RAID5/6

The STRs will only be ~400MB/s but the acess time will be ~0.1ms after controller latency.

or if you want maximum STRs/desktop performance get twelve WD1500ADFDs instead. This should hit around 720MB/s+

I'll just take ONE of those 128GB drives. $20,000 ain't that bad.