Watch how a single Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 Pwns all other drive there...

[Qianglong]

Tested on a single drive with LSI SAS 8344ELP Controller with 128MB Cache.


8MB Zone:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/50/bench1jm7.jpg

32MB Zone:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3066/bench2pg0.jpg

 

[Roguestar]

That sure is a thing.

 

[Anubis]

it also PWNS your wallet

 

[ForumMaster]

i wonder how well this would score...

 

[Qianglong]

Originally posted by: Anubis
it also PWNS your wallet

Actually you can find really cheap SAS drives on ebay. I got my cheetah for $200 and the controller for $120

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: Anubis
it also PWNS your wallet

Actually you can find really cheap SAS drives on ebay. I got my cheetah for $200 and the controller for $120

so 320$ for how many gigs?

 

[Qianglong]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: Anubis
it also PWNS your wallet

Actually you can find really cheap SAS drives on ebay. I got my cheetah for $200 and the controller for $120

so 320$ for how many gigs?

For 300GB. Not bad consider we are dealing with enterprise level HD and storage controllers.

Beat the crap out of raptors.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Qianglong

Originally posted by: Anubis
it also PWNS your wallet

Actually you can find really cheap SAS drives on ebay. I got my cheetah for $200 and the controller for $120

so 320$ for how many gigs?

For 300GB. Not bad consider we are dealing with enterprise level HD and storage controllers.

Beat the crap out of raptors.

yes performance wise they kick ass, what do you use it for?, awfully expensive as you can get a 300GB normal 7200 RPM HDD for less then 100$

cost/performance boot ratio seems low, but if you can afford them go for it

 

[NamelessMC]

I honestly think we need a competitor for the Raptor. For the performance the Raptor gives, I don't like the cost value of it. $150 for 150 gb's, where you could get 2x 320gb drives and Raid 0 them for the same cost. Seagate needs to drop an enthusiast level hard-drive for Serial ATA interface.

 

[imported_wired247]

That's pretty bad ass for a single drive. The only thing I don't like is price per GB.


If HD i/o hardware can keep improving, then maybe we will start seeing 10krpm drives with the data density of perpendicularly recorded platters...

 

[sutahz]

If we lived in a synthetic world, this would be great news.