Hard Drive Dilemma... Please throw your comments in.

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skypilot

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My primary machine has a 40GB IDE Western Digital 7200Rpm 400BB hard drive in it, which is pretty good drive from my experience. For christmas from my uncle, though, I got a Adaptec 3960 Ultra3 SCSI controller (160MBps) and 2 Seagate Barracuda ST34573LW SCSI Hard Drives (7200rpm, 4.55GB). Should I use one of these in the system as the boot drive, and if I do, will it be faster than the WD IDE drive? Thanks for your comments. I also got from him a SCSI Quantum Viking 4550MB SCSI Hard Drive, VK45W472. Is this better than the seagate drives? Sorry for the long post, but I'm a SCSI Newbie, big time.
 
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FishTankX

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It'd be faster, but i'd sugest something a bit faster (And less cramped) for you.


At hypermicro.com they sell a 10000RPM harddrive called the quantum Atlas 10KIII

That is one *KICK BUTT DRIVE*!

only 9 gigs, but it could beat the crap outa any IDE drive any day o' the week. If you could get that and put it as system drive you'd have one really screamin system. Beware, active cooling required.
 
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limsandy

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I heard SCSI should be faster than typical IDE, but I dont have experience with SCSI either.
But if you need another bump, there's one for you.
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guzik

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I suggest to raid your 4.5G SCSI drives to get maximum performance. Your Seagates are decent drives, especially if you have 1M cache version. I don't know anything about your Viking. If Quantum is same speed as Seagates set all three in RAID 5 array. You'll get 9GB of space with quite high level of security working in almost double speed of single drive. Set OS on the array and use your 40GB IDE for data. Single SCSI drives are barely faster than IDE unless:
a) in RAID 0 or 5, IDE arrays don't come even close, besides RAID 5 for IDE needs very expensive controller and still is slower
b) work under heavy, multiple accesses
SCSI drives have much better durability but cost arm and leg.

 
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kly1222

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Current IDE is faster than old SCSI. That's a really nice controller, but those barracuda's are out of date. Go ahead and try it out...but I have a feeling your WD drive will be faster.
 
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wyesgye

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Yes you can.... you need to use them as dynamic volumes then you will be able to RAID 0. Well, that is the case with 2k pro. In server, you can do RAID 0,1,5. Now, dont quote me on this but i dont think you can boot from a dynamic volume so keep that in mind when you try it out.
 
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