WD 100gig IDE w/ 8 meg Buffer

[DirtylilTechBoy]

Western Digital has a new 100gig drive out, besides their other 100gig drive. This new drive has a massive 8 meg buffer. Can something like this give the drive an advantage over SCSI?? I have to build a photo file server w/300+ gigs and I am looking at these drives because any similar SCSI drive costs three times as much and only has a 2-4 meg buffer.

Lets talk about this drive to find out what everyone has to say about this new 8meg buffer.

 

[xtreme2k]

This drive as been highly acclaimed over at storagereview 🙂

http://www.storagereview.com/welcom...om/articles/200110/20011008WD1000BB-SE_1.html

Just that it is a lot more expensive than then 'normal 2MB' 100GB.

 

[eshtog]

can this drive compete with scsi?

 

[LXi]

I don't think so, it's got a mediocre 13.5ms access, typical 10k SCSIs are in the 7-8ms range, it does have a shot to compete with SCSI in WinBench99, but everything else SCSI kills it.

 

[Scrith]

Has anyone seen this drive for sale anywhere? I'm building a new PC and would like to put this drive in it, but haven't found one on sale yet.

 

[Pariah]

You have to buy it direct from Western Digital. Visit their homepage for the link.

 

[BeauJangles]

looks pretty sweet. I wish I had the $$ 🙂

 

[The Stigenator]

If you are going to build a photoserver..

think of NAS (Network Attached Storage) like the stuff from Quantum/Maxtor .. they might be expensive but ti offers some sort of protection from data loss.

Otherwise try this site www.medeacorp.com