NEW 15K 147GB Sata II Seagate cheetah

Erm, I hate to rain on everyone's parade here but has anyone actually seen any concrete evidence of this new drive?

The best I can find is an obscure Norwegian forum who are having a similar discussion to this.
 
Massive Attack said:
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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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!
 
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.

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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
 
A quick google shows several US stores selling a 74GB version for aroun $425, which is much more reasonable. It also looks like there's a 36GB version too which should be cheaper still.
Hopefully these version will be released in the UK too.
 
The Cheetah 15K is available in 36, 74 or 146Gb sizes, however as far as I can tell there is NO SATA VERSION. The drive is available worldwide in U320 SCSI, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) or Fibre Channel versions.
 
SAS is without doubt the future for enterprise storage, and I would love to make the jump from my scsi cheetahs, but at the moment the performance difference is minimal, and certainly not worth the outlay - gen 4 cheetahs at that size can be had for less than half the price and at the moment the performance difference is negligible.

For those without scsi, this may well be worth considering, as they won't have already paid for the controllers and other drives, but for the price, it is probably too soon for the casual home user - wait until they appear on the 2nd hand market, and then think about it (I know I will ;) )
 
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