SCSI or SATA?

harris1986 · 26 Apr 2006 at 12:54

Hi guys i'm thinking of changeing my hard drive, i currently have a 160gb Seagate NCQ2 SATA but am just curious about the scsi drives and what performance gains they offer? anyone got one or got any thoughts?

Memnoch · 26 Apr 2006 at 12:57

I read this article a few days ago:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19

ashmanq · 27 Apr 2006 at 09:52

Thx for the link very imformative!

Dutch Guy · 27 Apr 2006 at 10:30

Maybe pure harddisk speed is the same but doesn't a SCSI/server harddisk have a better I/O performance?

id10T_error · 27 Apr 2006 at 12:18

I have 2 15k U320 SCSI's (Atlas II & IBM/Hitachi) and also a 74Gb Raptor.. The 15k SCSI's are noticeably faster (RA's <3ms) I can also extract a 4.36gb DVD from one 15k to the other in 60seconds :eek:

For me the 15k SCSI's are far more snappier than my Raptor when dealing with folders that have huge amounts of small files (Pics, vids ..etc)

MeatLoaf · 27 Apr 2006 at 18:18

Only problem with SCSI is the cost. The adapters and the drives are very expensive.