What is the fastest HDD ?

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Charles

Hi guys,

I have one question. I want to buy a very fast HDD. I want to spend less than US$500 though. I have
both Firewire and ATA ports on my motherboard.
Could you tell me what system is the fastest between ATA & Firewire? And is there a model of HDD
that you suggest? Any HDD above 20Gb is fine.
Thanks a lot,
 
Charles said:
Hi guys,

I have one question. I want to buy a very fast HDD. I want to spend less
than US$500 though. I have both Firewire and ATA ports on my motherboard.
Could you tell me what system is the fastest between ATA & Firewire? And
is there a model of HDD that you suggest? Any HDD above 20Gb is fine.
Thanks a lot,
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Look at the WD raptor
 
Thanks! It looks really good, and it's so cheap!
I wonder how fast I can boot WinXP Pro or Linux Gentoo on such a bomb...
Any idea?
 
Charles said:
Thanks! It looks really good, and it's so cheap!
I wonder how fast I can boot WinXP Pro or Linux Gentoo on such a bomb...
Any idea?
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Before you get TOO excited, remember that the drive in question uses a
SERIAL ATA interface -- something which you don't claim to have. If you
added a PCI card to acquire the required interface I'm not sure that the
data transfer would be up to the best that might be achieved with an
on-the-MB interface. So check which PCI controllers perform best before
plonking money down on the drive(s). There are some fancy raid controllers
for SATA which deliver truly awesome performance, as fast as the more
expensive SCSI raid adapters from what I've read, but these seem to want to
have a large number (8+) of drives connected to work their magic. And one of
the controllers would wipe out your whole budget.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20031114/index.html

BTW: Maxtor and Seagate make 15,000 rpm SATAs which should be faster overall
than the WD in a single-drive setup.
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Before you get TOO excited, remember that the drive in question uses a
SERIAL ATA interface -- something which you don't claim to have. If you
added a PCI card to acquire the required interface I'm not sure that the
data transfer would be up to the best that might be achieved with an
on-the-MB interface. So check which PCI controllers perform best before
plonking money down on the drive(s). There are some fancy raid controllers
for SATA which deliver truly awesome performance, as fast as the more
expensive SCSI raid adapters from what I've read, but these seem to want to
have a large number (8+) of drives connected to work their magic. And one of
the controllers would wipe out your whole budget.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20031114/index.html

BTW: Maxtor and Seagate make 15,000 rpm SATAs which should be faster overall
than the WD in a single-drive setup.
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Last I checked, the 15k drives were only available in SCSI. Even there, the
SATA Raptor was in the middle of the pack with the 15k drives. A lot of
bang for the buck. There are also adapters to allow SATA to work on a
standard parallel ATA controller. Another alternative to getting a PCI
controller card.

JT
 
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| Before you get TOO excited, remember that the drive in question uses a
| SERIAL ATA interface -- something which you don't claim to have. If you
| added a PCI card to acquire the required interface I'm not sure that the
| data transfer would be up to the best that might be achieved with an
| on-the-MB interface. So check which PCI controllers perform best before
| plonking money down on the drive(s). There are some fancy raid controllers
| for SATA which deliver truly awesome performance, as fast as the more
| expensive SCSI raid adapters from what I've read, but these seem to want to
| have a large number (8+) of drives connected to work their magic. And one of
| the controllers would wipe out your whole budget.
|
| http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20031114/index.html
|
| BTW: Maxtor and Seagate make 15,000 rpm SATAs which should be faster overall
| than the WD in a single-drive setup.


Hi John! Yes, I have 4 serial ATA ports on my motherboard. Are you sure there are Seagate SATA HD
that spin at 15,000rpm? I looked for it on the Seagate website and on Google, I din't find any...
It seems that 10,000rpm is the fastest so far for SATA, isn't it?
Thanks again,
 
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