SCSI Drives
Below, you can check out our breakdown of each SCSI drive per GB. Not all of the SCSI products available are listed, but some of the newer Seagate 15K.4 drives are included as a point of reference.Most likely, the people who need to buy a 15,000RPM SCSI drive have very little desire to scrape a dollar here or a dollar there by analyzing the current cost per GB (when CDW has the lowest price on a product, you know it's not your John Q public type of component). However, it is very interesting to see that the price on some of the more affordable SCSI drives is actually very competitive with some of the high end SATA Raptors. Whether or not you'd rather have two tiny Raptors in a RAID 0 configuration compared to one large Raptor is almost a matter of religion, but a 73GB Fujitsu 10RPM drive over a more expensive 73GB Raptor is surely a no brainier, if you have the bus capability, that is.
There has been some talk about 15,000RPM SATA II drives on the horizon; we may even see some demonstrations in time for Computex this year. The 15,000RPM Seagate 15K.4 drives are all over the place now, albeit at a price that is a little out of our reach. High performance SATA II 15,000RPM drives would certainly prove an interesting alternative to SCSI, but such drives would probably be marketed at a steeper price than a similar SCSI drive, much the same way that Western Digital Raptors are priced worse than the equivalent SCSI drive.
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KristopherKubicki - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
No no, I insist, more than that.Kristopher
flatblastard - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
hopefully more than that hopefullyflatblastard - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
#2 "hopefully its more than that"#3 "Haha more than that hopefully"
KristopherKubicki - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Haha more than that hopefully :-PKristopher
xsilver - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
"demystifying "how to buy an AMD processor and get what you want" guide!"interesting......
... sounds like a fluff piece
hopefully its more than that
bupkus - Sunday, May 8, 2005 - link