Wow 400gb Sata

[SpiralDragon]

http://news.com.com/2100-1015_3-5171944.html?tag=nefd_top

[GT98]

uh oh its a Hitihica Deathstar drive...wonder if they got that fix yet

[SpiralDragon]

western digitl is still stuck at 250gb my preferd drives

[High_Jumbllama]

Me likee!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Is that before or after using the Norton Ghost trick?

My 40 gig seems more and more pitiful, really ought to get a bigger one.

[spadnos]

Preciousssssss...

[SpiralDragon]

Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
Is that before or after using the Norton Ghost trick?

My 40 gig seems more and more pitiful, really ought to get a bigger one.

a few years ago i had bragong rights for 4x40GB WD 7.2K RPM drives in raid 0 config..... just wish i had the money for 4x400GB w/8mb and 7.2K RPM in RAID 0 config now (oh yeh and i do need it... lots of audio and vidio projects to do... i sometimes have to resort to dumping a few projects to get the space)

4x400... hummm thats 1.6TB (more or less)

[Kurt]

According to Storagereview, it's really an extended design of the 7K250 (5 platters instead of 3). I'm not sure the performance will be much better...

[High_Jumbllama]

My boot drive is still only 20GB!

Within a month and a half I will be able to do better along with the Athlon 64 and new motherboard and RAM. I'm thinking around 80GB and maybe this thing as a data drive.

[Kurt]

74 is the magic number for your boot drive. otherwise the 7k400 might be faster...

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by Kurt
74 is the magic number for your boot drive. otherwise the 7k400 might be faster...

Does this have to do with some O.S. or hardware limit? Currently thinking out a new machine.

[UtwigMU]

It has to do with 10k SATA 74GB, 10k 74GB SCSI or 15k 74GB SCSI drives.

Although - 15GB is enough to install OS, apps and use 4GB (maximum under 32-bit) page file. 36GB is enough for boot drive, if you have separate storage drive, you could even get by with 18GB drive, however software will start coming out on DVDs.




WRT to 400GB drive:
- it's IBM
- reliability is generally best with models that have been out for a while
- it's 5-platter design (remember, 75gxp was a 5-platter design as well)
- it's going to have price premium, so it will be more expensive per GB than 160-200GB drives, so it's better to have more smaller drives
- generally reliability of IDE drives has IMO degraded recently


I have other priorities right now, but here's storage solution I would get for above average system:
- 3Ware Escalade 8506 4-channel SATA RAID controller (RAID 1, 0, 10, 5, JBOD), supports multiple arrays
- 2x120-200GB Seagate or Maxtor drives in RAID1 for storage (WD is poor in stripped arrays, although this is RAID1. They excel at single drive and single user scenarios.)
- 36GB WD Raptor as boot drive

Then you can add 3d 120-200GB drive latter and create a RAID5 array over 3 drives.

Add 4th drive to RAID5, move Raptor to onboard or cheapo Promise PCI controller.

Opticals and mobile IDE racks go onboard, although, USB and FW enclosures for taking data arround are also good.



If you win the lottery, SCSI all the way.

[High_Jumbllama]

Does SCSI still make ones case sound like an airplane?

[UtwigMU]

Here's an idle noise database from storagereview.

http://storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php

According to this, Cheetah 15.3 should be similarly loud to WD800JB.

You can also check the specs of manufacturers.

Alas, I lack the $bling$ to tell you first hand.

[KvHagedorn]

Does anyone remember how expensive computers were back in the late 80s? I got a Mac SE30 (demo model) for $2000 back in 1990 or so.. It still has the retail sticker on it.. $6995.00

I figured it up, and you could get a dual Opteron system with 4GB of RAM, a Parhelia 256, an LSI Dual Channel PCI-X U320 RAID card, and 4 147GB Seagate Cheetahs for that much cash now. (My system as soon as I win that Lotto.)