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sata vs scsi hard drives

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tterris

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I'm strongly considering the Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive, which is priced at a reasonable $152 @ newegg, but when I scroll up and down the list of hard drives I see a bunch of different interfaces, and am quite confused. I believe SATA is the standard interface among hd's today, but then I see others such as scsi, eide and IEEEEEeeeEEEEeeeek. Basically what I'm wondering is which hd interface is the best choice, which is here to stay, and why the scsi are drastically more money than sata.

Gratzi.
 
SATA is the newest standard HDD interface. SATA II is hot on its heals. EIDE has been round for a long time but is on its way out. It is likely that most mobos will support it for AT LEAST for the next 3 or 4 years. SCSI has been around for years and years. They tend to be fast drives but they need a controlled card to run on almost all desktop systems. Mostly used by servers. The Raptor is a great drive. :thumbsup: You will not be unhappy with it. 😎
 
Originally posted by: Batti
SATA is the new interface. SCSI is dying, even in the server market now. You want SATA.
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And where did you read SCSI is dying ? NOT ! It is exspensive, but worth it if you have the money.
 
SCSI is faster than SATA, providing you have a PCI-X enabled motherboard (or a mobo with integrated SCSI) and a high-quality card. Unless you have a server motherboard, SATA is the way to go.
 
Originally posted by: Cheesehead
SCSI is faster than SATA, providing you have a PCI-X enabled motherboard (or a mobo with integrated SCSI) and a high-quality card. Unless you have a server motherboard, SATA is the way to go.
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SCSI is faster than SATA in many other configs. A 32bit PCI 33mhz SCSI card with a 15k SCSI drive will beat a Raptor at most things.
 
Here's the thing about SCSI....if your doing audio, video work, SCSI can execute the commands to do other things while the HD is working (reading/rendering) and until Native Command Queing hiots the SATA drives, it's still a SCSI world in the pro market. Case in point, render something then do a few other things, and if it's not SCSI, your system will slow down (system response), hyperthreading helps this, but AMD dual core will help this as well.

The future does look good though, very, very good. Apple, AMD first with dual CORE, NCQ to arrive soon,
 
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