What is THE FASTEST HDD setup? Ultra SCSI?

[KDOG]

Is it that Ultra SCSI 320? SCSI RAID?

 

[Vegito]

i only have 3 fuji drives on a raid 5 w/64mb cache on it.. 10k u160.. not 320...

 

[TunaBoo]

The new segate 36L or something is the fastest drive. SCSI raid means putting these together, so yes, putting together multiple good drives would make it faster. Raid 10 or 0+1 would be the best.

 

[crt1530]

<< What is THE FASTEST HDD setup? Ultra SCSI? >>


Did you win the lottery?
Some sort of SCSI RAID 0 or RAID 5(for people concerned about their data) using Seagate X15 36LP drives would be "THE Fastest."

 

[QuestionsandAnsweres]

what would be faster

2 IDE raid 7200rpm (ata 100) or 1 10k rpm SCSI DRIVE?


thanks

 

[crt1530]

I'd take the 10K provided it was a newer model.

 

[SCSIRAID]

Q&A - When you say faster.... you need to say in what context? MB per second or IO's per second. The RAID 0 7200's will out MB's the SCSI 10K in a large block unitasking workload. The single 10K SCSI will out IOPS the 7200's in a multitasking random small block workload.

A BMW sucks at carrying a family of 7 to Mickey-D's but is fantastic for the twisties with your GF. Its all relative.

EDIT: And like CRT said... I'd take the 10K SCSI.

 

[TunaBoo]

<< Q&A - When you say faster.... you need to say in what context? MB per second or IO's per second. The RAID 0 7200's will out MB's the SCSI 10K in a large block unitasking workload. The single 10K SCSI will out IOPS the 7200's in a multitasking random small block workload.

A BMW sucks at carrying a family of 7 to Mickey-D's but is fantastic for the twisties with your GF. Its all relative. >>




Geo prism works just great for the twisties, thank you.

 

[shathal]

"Fastest" think currently available on the planet:

15K RPM Ultra-160 (later Ultra-320) SCSI-HD's strapped in a RAID-0 array.

Can't stand RAID-0 myself (not redundant for a start...) but we're talking raw speed.

I'd like to see anything faster than that at the moment.

Of course - this is only FEASABLE when you have copious amounts of cash & cooling (for the HD's) - 15K rpm runs quite. quite hot .

Ah well ... nice thought though .

 

[crt1530]

<< Geo prism works just great for the twisties, thank you. >>


I'm just going to pretend I didn't see that, Tuna.

 

[Apex]

<< "Fastest" think currently available on the planet:

15K RPM Ultra-160 (later Ultra-320) SCSI-HD's strapped in a RAID-0 array.

Can't stand RAID-0 myself (not redundant for a start...) but we're talking raw speed.

I'd like to see anything faster than that at the moment.

Of course - this is only FEASABLE when you have copious amounts of cash & cooling (for the HD's) - 15K rpm runs quite. quite hot .

Ah well ... nice thought though . >>



A single Quantum Rushmore Ultra (>9000 I/O's per second, >30MB/sec sustained transfer, <50ns response time) would blow that Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP RAID0 rig out of the water, not to mention a Rushmore Ultra RAID0 array. Then again, that's cheating, huh?

 

[crt1530]

<< A single Quantum Rushmore Ultra (>9000 I/O's per second, >30MB/sec sustained transfer, <50ns response time) would blow that Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP RAID0 rig out of the water, not to mention a Rushmore Ultra RAID0 array. Then again, that's cheating, huh? >>


Nice try. He asked HDD, not SSD. Anyways, $28,000 for a 3.2GB drive might bust a few budgets.

 

[MichaelD]

What is SSD?

 

[crt1530]

Solid-State Disk.
From Webopedia.com:


<< Solid State Disks (SSD) are high performance plug-and-play storage devices that contain no moving parts. SSD components include either DRAM or EEPROM memory boards, a memory bus board, a CPU, and a battery card.


Because they contain their own CPUs to manage data storage, they are a lot faster (18MBps for SCSI-II and 35 MBps for UltraWide SCSI interfaces) than conventional rotating hard disks ; therefore, they produce highest possible I/O rates.


SSDs are most effective for server applications and server systems, where I/O response time is crucial. Data stored on SSDs should include anything that creates bottlenecks, such as databases, swap files, library and index files, and authorization and login information. >>

 

[MichaelD]

Ah, thank you! I want four of these! Thanks again; I have been schooled! Later, bud.

 

[Ryan]

Who sells ssd HDs? I can't remember.