Poll: Pick a hard drive for me... *Finally chose one*

[Chaotic42]

SAMSUNG 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive-$91

Fujitsu 36.7GB 10,025RPM SCSI Hard Drive-$124

Seagate Cheetah 18.36 15,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive- $100

Seagate Cheetah 73GB 15,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive- $200

I have one open IDE port and 29 open U160 SCSI ports (in theory). The SCSI card is alone on the 64/66 PCI bus.

Ok, I got a 160GB Western Digital. It has a one-year warranty which I don't like, but in a year I'll likely be shopping for a new 750GB drive anyway.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

depends on your needs...more storage(Samsung)..higher performance(SCSI)...me..I'm into more room at this moment..

 

[Corporate Thug]

room over performance in my book but like scrap said, its all about your needs

 

[Chaotic42]

Bump

 

[MidasKnight]

SCSI.

 

[Lonyo]

Since at the moment you only appear to have 100GB space and a 3Mbit cable connection, I would go for the Samsung IDE drive. That way you can fill it up

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Since at the moment you only appear to have 100GB space and a 3Mbit cable connection, I would go for the Samsung IDE drive. That way you can fill it up

Yeah.

I guess I could buy both of them...

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Since at the moment you only appear to have 100GB space and a 3Mbit cable connection, I would go for the Samsung IDE drive. That way you can fill it up

Yeah.

I guess I could buy both of them...

Yeah...boot from the SCSI and store data on the IDE

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Yeah...boot from the SCSI and store data on the IDE

Heh, well I do that now, except with drives exactly half of thier capacities. I boot from an 18GB SCSI and store the data on an 80GB IDE.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bump for more opinions.

 

[Runner20]

Seagate

 

[sharkeeper]

Put fast SCSI disks on an intelligent storage controller in your worksatan and build a gigE SAN for your mASS storage.

Cheers!

 

[XplosiV]

SATA ? I would just do the job properly and get a new mobo with sata and a couple of 250gb sata drves failing that ... EIDE goes upto 350gb at a fairly decent price, not sure if you would actually see a benifit from running scsi, also depends if you want to run on FAT32 or NTFS

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: XplosiV
SATA ? I would just do the job properly and get a new mobo with sata and a couple of 250gb sata drves failing that ... EIDE goes upto 350gb at a fairly decent price, not sure if you would actually see a benifit from running scsi, also depends if you want to run on FAT32 or NTFS

Pick me out a dual Athlon MP capable board with 64-bit 66MHz PCI slots and SATA.

I already have a SCSI drive and host adapter.

 

[XplosiV]

How about ...

MB7750 ASUS SK8N, Socket 940 for Opteron and Athlon 64 FX, NVIDIA nForce3 Pro150, AMD64, Dual Channel DDR, 0/3GB DDR333/266, ECC Reg. Support, 5x32 PCI, AGP 8X, 6-CH Audio, SATA, RAID, ATA133, 1394, LAN, ATX - Motherboard only

Lord knows why you want dual CPU, theres very little benifit ...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: XplosiV
How about ...

MB7750 ASUS SK8N, Socket 940 for Opteron and Athlon 64 FX, NVIDIA nForce3 Pro150, AMD64, Dual Channel DDR, 0/3GB DDR333/266, ECC Reg. Support, 5x32 PCI, AGP 8X, 6-CH Audio, SATA, RAID, ATA133, 1394, LAN, ATX - Motherboard only

Lord knows why you want dual CPU, theres very little benifit ...

That's not an Athlon MP capable motherboard.

 

[CraigRT]

I'd go with SCSI for me right now, cause I want more speed. but it clearly depends just on what you need.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bump

 

[Chaotic42]

Wow, found another good drive

 

[SilentZero]

Realistically, Id say IDE. But I choose 15k 74gb SCSI for the "WOW" factor.

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
SAMSUNG 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive-$91

Fujitsu 36.7GB 10,025RPM SCSI Hard Drive-$124

Seagate Cheetah 18.36 15,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive- $100

Seagate Cheetah 73GB 15,000RPM SCSI Hard Drive- $200

I have one open IDE port and 29 open U160 SCSI ports (in theory). The SCSI card is alone on the 64/66 PCI bus.

Edit: Added another drive...

This doesn't seem like very good advice to me. Yes, you can get an 18GB Cheetah X15 for $100, but it's slower than a 160GB SATA Hitachi that also costs $100. The Hitachi also matches the speed of that 10K Fujitsu you listed.

The $200 Cheetah 15K3 73GB is also slower than the $200 Raptor 73GB.

Personally, I have four 10,000 RPM SCSI drives in my system. I'm not bashing SCSI. The simple fact, though, is that it's just not practical for your average system anymore when modern SATA drives are cheaper and actually faster.

There's a reason the SCSI market has seen major price drops -- because SCSI drives aren't the best anymore.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: SilentZero
Realistically, Id say IDE. But I choose 15k 74gb SCSI for the "WOW" factor.

Ditto.

Go for more storage as you already have a SCSI setup for your boot drive.

Koing

 

[Tostada]

Sorry, I seem to have been confused about the whole concept of this poll.

I certainly don't think there's a need for you to go get a new board or a SATA controller just to add one drive. I suppose I'd go with the Samsung, though.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Tostada
This doesn't seem like very good advice to me. Yes, you can get an 18GB Cheetah X15 for $100, but it's slower than a 160GB SATA Hitachi that also costs $100. The Hitachi also matches the speed of that 10K Fujitsu you listed.

The $200 Cheetah 15K3 73GB is also slower than the $200 Raptor 73GB.

I can't find the 160GB Hitachi, just the 250GB on storagereview.com

15K 73GB Cheetah Average Read Service Time: 5.9ms
15K 73GB Raptor Average Read Service Time: 7.8ms
7.2K 250GB Hitachi Deskstar Average Read Service Time: 12.1ms

15K 73GB Cheetah Transfer Rate-Begin: 76.4 MB/s
15K 73GB Raptor Transfer Rate-Begin: 71.8 MB/s
7.2K 250GB Hitachi Transfer Rate-Begin: 60.4MB/s

15K 73GB Cheetah Transfer Rate-End: 51.1MB/s
15K 73GB Raptor Transfer Rate-End: 53.8 MB/s
7.2K 250GB Hitachi Transfer Rate-End: 32.9 MB/s

15K 73GB Cheetah High-End DriveMark 2002: 505 IO/s
15K 73GB Raptor High-End DriveMark 2002: 585 IO/s
7.2K 250GB Hitachi High-End DriveMark 2002: 459 IO/s

15K 73GB Cheetah File Server DriveMark 2002: 345 IO/s
15K 73GB Raptor File Server DriveMark 2002: 213 IO/s
7.2K 250GB Hitachi File Server DriveMark 2002: 127 IO/s

The Raptor kicks some butt in the High-End DriveMark 2002 area, and it's a little faster on the transfer rate-end benchmark, but the 73GB Cheetah seems to be pretty dominant to me.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bump