Seagate Hard drives??ATA66/100???

[Bones]

Wow.

There's a shop selling the C-Port just around the corner from me for $995AU. That's $530US.

$360US= AU$680 :0 WOW!

They ship from Korea too so the shipping should be quick and cheap.

This is looking very possible.

Thanx Ola

Bones

 

[ola]

That's the way to do it; Fiddle the knobs at a local dealer and buy online. Too bad it has to be that way but with 25%-50% lower prices including shipping, I cannot justify buying locally. Maybe when I'm rich and famous...

/O

 

[Layth]

Bones and Ola, just my 2 cents. I worked for Seagate for about five years, (we were part of Control Data when Seagate bought out the high end drive division in Minnesota)I worked in production control so I got to talk to some of the engineers at the time. What I learned was that SCSI drives were built with tougher use in mind and therefore should last a little longer and be of better quality then the ATA's. I believe they are about to release 15,000 RPM SCSI drives soon if they haven't already. If cost is the issue ATA's should be fine and speed is about the same as SCSI. The only other advantage I can think of for SCSI is they don't use up IRQ's like popcorn!
I haven't worked for Seagate for about four years so maybe this isn't true anymore but think it probably is.

 

[ola]

It is indeed true that SCSI in general are of a higher quality but the difference is smaller now than four years ago. However, you get two IDE and a RAID controller card for the price of a SCSI disc. Configure them as RAID1 and you don't have to worry about the slightly lower quality. Thanks for pointing that out though.

I have to look into the IDE IRQ issue when using a HW IDE RAID controller.

Seagate have recently released their 15k rpm Cheetah but they're a bit pricey...over US$600 for 18GB. The avg. seek time of 3.9ms is pretty neat though. You'd get 36GB of pretty mean storage for only US$2500 if you set a couple of those babies up in RAID10

Don't we just love all these acronyms?

/Ola