Hard Drives - Worlds Quickest?

Inquitus

What is the worlds fastest HD in the following catagories.

IDE
SATA
SCSI

I am presuming that the WD Raptor is the quickest in the SATA catagory, or can some of the 7200RPM 16MB NCQ HD's give it a run for it's money?

Am in the market for a new HD or 2, and want the fastest available, obviously within reason......which probably rules out the SCSI route, unless I just buy a small one and a controller to use as the boot drive.

Thoughts and advice pls.

Inqui

WizZard

SCSI is fastest overall.

WD Raptor 74GB is the current fastest in the SATA category. Or try a RAID 0 array with two of those for a faster access still!

unklerosco

I think custom pc reviewed one of the newer samsung 7200rpm drives n it came out faster than the raptor... cant remember the model, will have a looksy ltr.

Inquitus

Which issue? I have them here, and I thought I remembered reading that one of the New 16MB Buffer NCQ Drives came out as quick if not quicker than the raptor.......and alot more GB's for a similar price.

Inqui

unklerosco

If u have the latest one read the review on the Scan comeleon pc... They question the use of 5 raptors when the samsungs r bigger, faster n quiter...

Dooom

I've a new WD 250GB SATA 2 16mb cache drive in my system, beside my 74GB Raptor and tbh the WD seems to load things a good bit quicker. Although some things load quicker with the Raptor. Dunno. Weird I say...Weird!

po0k

Samsung Spinpoint SP2504Cs I think, 120 or 125Gig platters, SATA300, NCQ, I have 2 in raid0.
Silent, fast, ninja drives.

Dundhoone

Are these the samsung drives you have Syxpak?

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307913&cks=PRL

Gone West

I once used a system with a pair of 15kRpm 36 gig Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives in Raid0
I must say. Very very impressive, although the price is astronomical. $600 for 60 gigs of fast hdd space.

unklerosco

Dundhoone wrote:

Are these the samsung drives you have Syxpak?

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307913&cks=PRL

They're the ones custom pc say are faster than the raptops... 10secs quicker loading levels in farcry..

unkel

FuzzyLogic wrote:

I once used a system with a pair of 15kRpm 36 gig Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives in Raid0
I must say. Very very impressive, although the price is astronomical. $600 for 60 gigs of fast hdd space.

Or even $600 for 36 gigs as they were in RAID0

Inquitus

Raid 0 is striped, so you get the full capacity of both drives, so 68GB. The problem is if one fails you lose ALL the data.

Inqui

SouperComputer

always worth a browse:

www.storagereview.com

4Xcut

fastest would be the new pci card coming out. you can put ram into it and it has a battery for when the pc is off. it can hold 4 ram sticks so thats 8gigs. not bad if its at ram speeds.

Gone West

unkel wrote:

Or even $600 for 36 gigs as they were in RAID0

Youre mixing up raid 0 and raid 1 my good man!
I wouldn't touch raid 0 ever again.
Not after that 300 gig of data loss last time.
*shudder*

-oRnein9-

I highly recommend the WD Raptor , excellent main boot drive and superb load times in games and applications, hasn't failed me yet in nearly a year and a half jinx touch wood.

ebooborg

where would i be without my western digital raptor?!

still booting up..

unkel

FuzzyLogic wrote:

Youre mixing up raid 0 and raid 1 my good man!

Indeed I was

And that's after having had RAID0 for well over a year myself. Went back to non raid a few months ago. Didn't notice any performance decrease btw (2*Samsung SATA 160GB 8MB Cache)

Gone West

yep, I'd have to agree with you there.
Unless you are tansferring huge amounts of data (read: linux ISOS) over a 1000mbit lan connection and both computers are using radio0, theres feck all noticable difference.

WizZard

FuzzyLogic wrote:

and both computers are using radio0

What music do they play regularly? Any good?

Gone West

¬_¬

*raid 0