Fastest setup of U160 15k harddrive...

[Guest]

I'm going to run only on OS Windows ME on my gaming machine.

I have a Seagate X15 18,4GB U160 15k drive that I want to setup for utmost performance.

Space is of no concern only performance.
The machine will only be used for games and nothing else.

Any input appreciated!


/J

AMD TBIRD 1.33
Vapochill
Nivida Geoforce3
Apacer 256MB DDR PC2100
Seagate XP15 15k

 

[peteb]

don't use ME is my only comment.

What are you going to run are you looking for fastest game performance or fasted CAD performance or what?

I often wonder why HDD is SO required to be fast? Most people don't use and don't require fast access to disk.

Concentrate on meomory, cpu, mobo and video card - it will likely have much better impact on performance that you can see.

If you are building a server or realtime system - then excuse me - if you want fast games, a 15k scsi disk is not going to give you much benefit over a uata IBM HDD - except it will be smaller and 2x cost.

-* This Space For Rent *-
email for application details

 

[Guest]

"don't use ME is my only comment."

Care to explain in a bit more detail..?


"What are you going to run are you looking for fastest game performance or fasted CAD performance or what?"

As I stated:
"I'm going to run only on OS Windows ME on my GAMING machine."
"The machine will only be used for GAMES and nothing else."

HDD not important??! I wouldn't like to spend my entire youth waiting for my gamez to load, now would I..?
Seriously, I got the best(?) of everything else, why would I cheap out when it comes to the harddrive...


/J



AMD TBIRD 1.33
Asus A7M266
Vapochill
nVida Geoforce3
Apacer 256MB DDR266
Seagate X15

 

[Guest]

The new ata100 ide drives will give you ~35MB/s sustained transfer rate. The scsi drives you are talking about are not that much faster. Where the 15K scsi drives excel is in random access in an environment such as a database server.

For high performance, you want multiple disk drives in a RAID setup. The cost of scsi raid controllers starts at about $1000. Just get two IBM 75GXP with a promise fasttrack100 and run them in a striped raid configuration.

It has been shown many times that win98se is faster in all game benchmarks than winme. It's got less baggage to slow down the system. <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q3/000927/index.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q3/000927/index.html</A>

--------
I have not yet begun to procrastinate.

 

[Guest]

the x15 transfers up to 48.9MB/s (~40% faster). seek time 3.9ms compared to 8.5ms for the ide drives. seagates new 73GB 10k drive transfers data up to 63.9MB/s (~83% faster) with seek times as low as 4.9ms. with even faster 15k drives out this summer ide drives do not compare. also scsi raid controllers are much less than $1000. atto expressPCI ultra3 raid starts at $280. for high performance ide raid 0 is not necessarily a good thing as seek times increase and the extra transfer rate is not usually necessary. i don't think scsi raid suffers as much from this problem, but i'm not sure. it could be a hardware vs software raid issue as well. it is a seperate question whether games will benefit from these specs however, but please use the relevent and correct info to show this, next time.

i had a drink the other day... opinions were like kittens i was givin' away

 

[Guest]

Xellent link! Exactly what I was looking for!

That settles it I'll go with Win98SE after all.

Found this link as well:
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/winmeeval/default.asp

Note that much difference in games, but if there were Win98SE were most of the time ahead.

Thanx!


/J

AMD TBIRD 1.33
Asus A7M266
Vapochill
nVida Geoforce3
Apacer 256MB DDR266
Seagate X15<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by JoacimBoive on 04/19/01 06:14 AM.</EM></FONT></P>