NEW 15K 147GB Sata II Seagate cheetah

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
 
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
 
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
 
messiah khan said:
Im not risking any of my files on hope tbh. Ive only ever had 1 drive die on my and that was a 2Gb Fujitsu years ago. Having said that, im getting increasingly paranoid about data loss, so i want everything backed up. Unfortunately I can't use more, cheaper drives for backup as I don't have the space in the case. Ive got a V2000b, but the bottom compartment is being taken up by a phase unit, so all the drives have to sit in enclosures in the 5 1/4" bays. I agree with you that the raid editions should be solid and reliable, but remember than ANY drive can fail, and if you have no backup, that potentially means the loss of 320Gb of data.. which is a lot!
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i spose you are right in a way but i really dont have the money to buy another 3x320gb drives and tbh 2 of them are going to be filled with dvds so its no great loss, i was not surprised that u lost a fujitsu as there drives are pretty crap tbh, in all my years of computing i have very rarely heard that a WD or a seagate drive has failed so i think i should be ok


HEADRAT said:
I think I'd want to see how much the Samsung 32GB Flash SSD drive was, its performance would knock that 15K beast into next week.

HEADRAT
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im sure that a 36gb flash drive would knock that 15k drive into next week but ive just checked on a competitrs website and found a 16gb super talent one for nearly £400 so a 32gb is going to be more than double that
 
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