I am currently deciding what HDD's to put in my new system. I first wanted to buy 2 (Cheetah X15 36LP 18.4 GB Ultra160 SCSI 15K RPM Drives) and attach them to an Adaptec SCSI RAID 3200S controller. The other alternative would be Two - IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40GB 7200RPM ATA100 connected to a Promise ATA/100 Raid 0 Controller Card. Basically I dont care about the cost or "wasting money" I'm just looking for the best performance. The company that I contacted gave me this information :::
The IDE drives would have a max data transfer around 40M/s while the SCSI drives would top out at 29M/s. So even with the incredible increase in access times with the 15k drives they would overall perform slower.
Could someone who understands this stuff a lot better than me please!!! respond to let me know if this makes any sense. This will be the last computer that I buy for at least 3 years and really dont want to cut any corners that I will regret.
Thanks In Advance for the help!!
The IDE drives would have a max data transfer around 40M/s while the SCSI drives would top out at 29M/s. So even with the incredible increase in access times with the 15k drives they would overall perform slower.
Could someone who understands this stuff a lot better than me please!!! respond to let me know if this makes any sense. This will be the last computer that I buy for at least 3 years and really dont want to cut any corners that I will regret.
Thanks In Advance for the help!!