SAS drives??

[jammir]

Was after a faster hdd for unraring and paring but only have room for a 2.5" hdd. I currently have a 100gb 2.5" 5400rpm, It's too slow and really holds the PC up, was going to get one of those raptors the 2.5" ones with the heatsinks and just run it without the heatsink but they are too expensive.

Anyway have just come across a 2.5" 10k 73gb sas drive was only £58 am I right in thinking this will be fast as/faster than the raptors? can't find any info on it (already ordered one tho) has anyone had any experience with these? The one I've ordered is this 73.5 GB Fujitsu MAY2073RC, 10025 rpm, 16MB, 4.0 ms.

 

[PhillyDee]

You know you need an SAS controller card right?

 

[jammir]

yeah I think my Adaptec 31605 or Adaptec 5805 should work fine with it am i correct?

 

[ChrisLX200]

Similar to a Raptor, it's a 10K SCSI drive with a serial interface. More noise and heat than a Raptor perhaps as it's heritage is enterprise servers where those factors don't matter, but it does offer a simpified (cheaper) harness layout. They do well in RAID - which is their design goal. SCSI moved on from 10K to 15K for better performance, but God knows how they manage to make something spin at 15K rpm 24/7 and still be reliable.

I think the SAS interface will have a short lifespan, soon to be replaced by SSD. I'd be interested to know why ASUS thought it wise to include support for SAS on the P6T, although it didn't last long as it was gone on the Rev.2 boards. It was a bizarre decision for a workstation motherboard. I'm happy though, gave me 2 extra ports for hosting another pair of SATA drives.

When you get it post a HD Tune benchmark, I think 4ms access is optimistic.

 

[jammir]

When you get it post a HD Tune benchmark, I think 4ms access is optimistic.

Yeah should have it tomorrow or the day after, got a few raid controllers atm will get some benchmarks done.

Noise isnt a issue as its going in my fileserver/download box which is in the boxroom.