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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:08:15 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SCSI

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In <3F4FA9CC.7ADD0225@pacbell.net>, on 08/29/03
at 11:28 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>went to the webstores of three *major* companies, such as CDW, and, among
>their pages of product listings from various mfr.s, I could not find even
>one IDE type that was faster than 7200 RPM ! Even the few SATA drives
>they had were 7200s. Well, the hell with that -- I've been using 10K RPM
>drives for the last few years. I would imagine that Seagate or one of
>the others *must* make some

The do, but they are now yet widely available, TTBOMK. See:

http://sudhian.dealtime.com/xPO-Western_Digital_20PK_36GB_10K_RPM_SATA_W_8MB_CACHE_SERIAL_ATA_WD360GD_20PK

I suspect as pressure mounts to make SATA available in server class
machines we will start to see more of them. The SATA bandwidth is pretty
close to what SCSI can do.

FWIW, our 10K drives are slow by today's standards. The current 15K
drives are typically 3.9 mSec access time and transfer rates to match
their speed. I have not run across any 15K SATA drives.

>I don't know if SCSI hard drives are still much better in the M.T.B.F. /
>reliability area, which was
>once the case. But what I found suggests to me the possibility that SCSI
>still holds the high ground,
>when it comes to quality and performance.

Well, warranty for a server class SCSI drive is still 3-5 years. IDE is
typically 1 year. That says something.

Steven

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