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Seagate's Momentus XT vs Seagate SAS

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ShadeZeRO

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I'm currently running two Seagate 15k.5 SAS Drives in RAID-0 on a dell perc 5/i controller.

Would anyone recommend going to the seagate momentus over that? SSD is just too expensive ATM. Unless I can get a 128GB SSD around the same price.
 
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I don't think you'd gain anything noticeable; the XT enhances the reads but does nothing for the writes and with the cache on your controller, you may see no difference at all.
 
Stay with your Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives in the RAID0 array. Momentus XT is basically good for laptops with a single drive. Your scenario doesn't fit.
 
I appreciate your input everyone! I'll be sticking with my current setup (Unless I go SSD) lol. But, I feel so 90's paying 2-3$/gb
 
ShadeZeRO said:
I appreciate your input everyone! I'll be sticking with my current setup (Unless I go SSD) lol. But, I feel so 90's paying 2-3$/gb
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Wait a little longer, there's already a few deals out there with prices for SSDs at $1.16/Gb so we're getting there.

Since your setup works pretty well now, just stay with it and wait on the next gen drives that should offer amazing price/performance compared to this generation.

The Corsair P3-256 is looking to offer $1.6/gig prices.
 
I agree with all in terms of speed but the hybrid drive will probably make like no noise compared to 2 15k drives... but probably a non-issue.
 
Comparing a MomentusXT to a Cheetah? Don't do it! Stay put or go SSD. XT is borderline fraud IMO. Your IOPS will drop like a barrel full of depleted uranium dropped in Lake Erie. You would not replace a pair of 15K drives with a pair of 7.2K notebook drives, right? That's what you'll get, no more!

As far as the noise - I miss the noise of sleet hammering down on a porthole when the machine is busy. (We don't see that kind of weather in these latitudes!) The SSDs are too darn quiet!
 
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