why don't hard IDE hard drives come in 10000RPM?

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: Pariah
There are at least 5 SCSI drives that exceed 54.3MB/s, the X15-36LP topping them all at 60.5MB/s. This drive was released last August, and the best IDE can do 2 generations later is sub 50MB/s. The next gen X15 due in a couple of months is expected to break 80MB/s.

Edit: Also keep mind, that due to the smaller platters in SCSI drives, they decay far less than IDE drives do. The WD that hits 49MB/s, but drops all the way down to 29.2MB/s on the outside, while the SCSI drives drop to about 45MB/s, less than 5MB/s slower than the fastest part on the WD drive. The difference between 45 and 29 is pretty significant.

Yep, scsi is better but to expensive plus you need a card because there are no good motherboards with scsi built in. The new 10K Maxtor will hit 72 MB with a low seek 4.4 ms, have no idea how much it will cost though.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Fujitsu has substantially increased the maximum internal data transfer rate with these two new enterprise drive series. With 114MB/s on the MAS Series and 107MB/s on the MAP Series, transfer rates have increased by 28 percent and 25 percent over previous drives, respectively.

Wow some really fast scsi drives are coming

 

[Pariah]

The quoted Fujitsu numbers are ITR which are typically a decent bit higher than STR.

 

[peter7921]

Originally posted by: Akaz1976
Is 15k SCSI worth almost double the price over 10k SCSI for an avid online and offline gamer? I find 2/3 sec freezes in DAoC, Morrowind etc very annoying but i am not sure how much of it is HDD and how much of it is my slow CPU (or even just poor implementation of game code)


Akaz

PS. My rig specs are in my sig.

Not sure about DAOC but the reason that Morrowind pauses is because of anti-piracy software that runs in the backround and periodically checks to make sure things aren't beeing done. There is a crack you can get to fix this but i'm not sure what its called or where you get it though.

 

[Jayllo]

Now that the SCSI VS IDE debate has settled a little, does anyone know the timeframe for U320? I know LSIlogic already makes controllers for it, haven;t seen any drives yet? Could someone give me a rough estimate?