Full-height monster scsi HD's...

[maxSe]

Hi guys.
Yup, another scsi hd question from your truly...🙂

As I'm converting my system to full scsi, I have collected most parts except for my storage solution... I'm considering picking up a full-height HD's, since any decent-sized low profile scsi's tend to shoot up way past my budget (at least ~20g).

I plan to use this to store mp3's, files, programs, p😉rns, etc., and burn cd's off of it. My question is with the performance of these drive when I burn cd's. Most of these drives' specs run 5400rpm, 12~13 sec seek time, 1mb cache, etc. Are they good enough with these specs, or do they not matter since they'll most likely have sustained transfer rate of ~40mb?

Again, any suggestions, opinions are all welcome & thanks for all the suggestion you guys put in my previous post. (I love this board🙂)

 

[Mark R]

You do not need a high performance HD for CD burning, especially if the drive is dedicated for burning, with no system files, apps, etc. on it.

If the drive is dedicated, then virtually anything with a sustained transfer rate of better than 3 MB/s will be sufficient for even the fastest burner.

However, your estimate of 40 MB/s sustained transfer rate is somewhat optimistic, even the very fastest drives available today barely reach that. A 12 ms seek time is also rather slow by today's standards. Then you have to consider the heat and noise - full-height drives are hot, loud and suck power.

While this drive will probably be sufficient for your needs, unless the drive needs to be external, I'd consider a modern IDE drive - it will be hugely faster, and you will have the benefit of a warranty (I'd suspect your SCSI drive is so old that it's warranty expired long ago).

 

[maxSe]

Thanks Mark R.

I don't have the drive yet, but I'm thinking about picking one up (even though it won't have any warranty) to have a full scsi setup. I would consider going combination of scsi & ide drives, but I think it'll just create unnecessary headaches setting up the system.

Is the noise that loud? hmm... I may have to reconsider on this then...

This is my system spec:
Tyan Tiger 100 w/ dual PIII 700
256 ram
V5 5500
Main hd: WD Enterprise 10K 18.2G running W2K
Secondary: Quantum Atlas V 9.1G running Red Hat 6.2
Tekram U160 controller
Intel Pro+ NIC
SB Live
USR 56K
Pioneer 303S SCSI DVD
HP9100+ SCSI CDRW

Thanks again.

 

[RSI]

I doubt that you will care about the noise much, look at the HDs you have already. I think you should go for a Seagate X15 (is that what it's called?) scsi drive, heard they're one of if not the best.

"If the drive is dedicated, then virtually anything with a sustained transfer rate of better than 3 MB/s will be sufficient for even the fastest burner."

Hey, I have a drive that's barely that fast! :Q 😛

Well it really depends what you're doing ... From the looks of things though, it doesn't sound like you need a bunch of SCSI drives, but whatever suits your desires/needs is fine..

-RSI