NEW 15K 147GB Sata II Seagate cheetah

neo-omega said:
isnt that basically a scsi drive that has been colnverted to sata?
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Yeah, it'll be a SAS (serial attached SCSI) drive that's been tweaked a bit. SAS controllers can run SATA drives as well as SAS but this is the first time I've seen anyone do it the other way round.

messiah khan said:
Very nice. Price isn't though.
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Hey, some of us remember paying that sort of money for 147 MEGABYTES!!!
 
It's the same price as the SCSI version goes for. Yeah it's heck of an expensive per Gb in comparison to a 7200rpm SATA drive but this isn't a SATA drive. These are drives which are designed to operate 24/7 for their entire life, and that's actually transferring data 24/7 not just powered up.

Check out the sustained transfer rate - 125MB/s :eek:

I don't want one though - I want 4 of them :D
 
rpstewart said:
It's the same price as the SCSI version goes for. Yeah it's heck of an expensive per Gb in comparison to a 7200rpm SATA drive but this isn't a SATA drive. These are drives which are designed to operate 24/7 for their entire life, and that's actually transferring data 24/7 not just powered up.

Check out the sustained transfer rate - 125MB/s :eek:

I don't want one though - I want 4 of them :D
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lol thats the way i felt, i new my raptor was fast when i first got it but 15K sata sas drive thats gotta be very quick the price tag makes me cry i want 2 in raid but thats £1K
 
Let's not forget, this will be the fastest SATA hard drive available. In fact, it will be one of the best hard drives money can buy (of SCSI and eveything) 147GB is certainly fast enough for an OS/programs/game drive so this drive is something you would buy and just have for years.

Of course, solid state (when it is actually a viable option) will take over but this is a few years away at least - there are still a lot of limitations on the currect technology.
 
messiah khan said:
I would be more tempted by a 36Gb (ish) drive just for windows, as I prefer keeping windows/applications/games on seperate drives.
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me too but i find myself deleting files of my 36gb raptor everyday as my program files just keep on growing and growing, this new seagate drive is the fastest sata drive out and will be for a while, personally i dont see WD competing and if they do my god are they going to be pricy, the raptors are dear enough let alone one with a bigger motor
 
messiah khan said:
What do you mean program files? You installing programs to the raptor as well? I install all my programs to another drive. Ive currently got 28Gb free on the raptor.
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yeah i run windows and all my progs off the raptor it will be faster than reading them from another drive and thats what i bought it for, what do u just run windows off yours and thats it
 
Possibly. Doubt there would be much in it though tbh. It also means that there are no slowdown if windows and porgrams/games want to be accessed at the same time. Ive also got 82Gb of programs/games, so i'd need at least a 150Gb raptor. The setup im going for now is;

36Gb Raptor - Windows
250Gb WD - Programs/Games
250Gb WD - Files
500Gb Seagate - Media files
500Gb Seagate - Backup
500Gb Seagate - Backup
 
nice drive setup, there really any need to have a double 500gb backup though those drives cost a fortune, i am going to buy 3x320gb WD RE sata 2 drives at the end of this month when i get paid all for files no backup, never had a drive go down and i should hope none of these raid edition drives fail either especialy with 1 million hours MTBF
 
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