is there such think as a 10,000 rpm scsi 3 gig hd?

[eshtog]

?

 

[Richard98]

There are many 10k u160 drives.

 

[Viper22]

Lowest 10K SCSI Drive ive seen is 9GB. You might be able to find a 4.5GB 7200 though.

Viper22

 

[Sundog]

Yes

 

[kyoshozx]

The original cheetah was released in 4.5 gig and 9 gig. It'll be hard to find, why would you need a 10krpm in 3 gig? The orignal cheetahs ran extremely hot and was noisy.

 

[DarkManX]

i do have a 4 gig drive, if u really need to know what model/brand I can look.

 

[FrankBlack]

I have a seagate cheetah 4.5gig 10,000rpm drive. It's pretty loud, but pretty fast still. Not as nice as newer models though.

 

[zephyrprime]

But wait a sec, sure the access time will be pretty good but the throughput will be miserable because of the low areal density. The overall performance of a 3gig 10k rpm scsi may suck compared to a modern 5400rpm ide. I'm just speculating but does anyone know for a fact?

 

[AluminumStudios]

I agree, areal density plays a good role in transfer rate and rotational latency. I don't think any <9 SCSI can hold much of a stick to large, new, 7200 RPM IDE.

I personally don't see the need for SCSI outside of servers. For a single user desktop, I've never seen a difference between high perf SCSI and IDE (other than cost and capacity SCSI is nice in a server though becasue it supports command queing to service multiple simultaneous requests more effecitently.