Just found my next harddrive
The Western Digital 1000BB-SE with the increased 8MB buffer looks like a winner 
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Now that's a fat cache!
I'm still waiting for the 10k rpm IDE's to hit
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I don't know if you read the whole review, but SR said that this extra cache gives the same performance they calculate a 10k drive to give.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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hmm, no need to upgrade my x15 just yet then!
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That was also true of some 5400 vs 7200's, but then the 7200 came back with a vengence
Same will be true with 10k drives
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Re: Just found my next harddrive
Is it SCSI? No. Then it is no winnerOriginally posted by CHHAS
The Western Digital 1000BB-SE with the increased 8MB buffer looks like a winner
SCSI roolz.
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Just as a warning....I've had tons of Western Digital Hard Drives go bad on me. Only saving grace was that when they did start to go it wasn't to the point that I couldn't get the important data off them and their return/replacement policy is second to none! When I was working for a small Networking company, our system builder used nothing but WD drives and I remember at one point in time I had over a half dozen of them on my desk from a 2 month period of time. I would still suggest them though
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I've heard those 10000 RPM drives (at least the early ones) shook like crazy and got really hot. Wonder if they will eventually come with fans/heatsinks preattached
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Just found out that the WD1000BB-SE is only available from WD's online shop, which doesn't ship to Europe
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TnT, if the drives shook like crazy then the platters aren't balanced and the bearings would overheat/blowout in a heartbeat.
I highly doubt they would/could bring a drive like that to market."Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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With memory prices like these days, I do wonder why HDD's don't have realy large caches....
like 32 or 64....If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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