What HHD?

[Toby]

i know therea another HDD post, but i'd like to follow my own...

I'm after a SATA HDD, 10,000RPM one, 120/160/200GB, depends on pricing
what make should i go after, got maxtor ATA at the moment, running fine, but i keep away from SEAGATE HDD's as we have had problems with them in the past....any suggestions....

 

[etp777]

Won't swear to it, but don't think there's a drive on the market yet that meets those requirements. Believe only SATA drives in that capacity range are 7200rpm drives, at least for now.

 

[gobeavers]

The largest SATA 10,000 RPM HDD is 74gb, that is the Western Digital Raptor.

"640K oughta be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates
That'll be enough L1 cache for me too...

 

[Toby]

owww, gonna have top wait then....doh, thught they would have been out by now. ah well

Cheers!

 

[jammydodger]

I think it might be quite a long wait, as far as I know WD have no plans to make a bigger Raptor drive in the near future. Why dont you just buy 2 74GB raptors? Then you could put them in a RAID 0 array or summik? Or you could just get a 7200rpm drive...why do you need such a fast drive?

P4c 2.6@3.25
512Mb PC4000
2x120Gb 7200.7 in RAID0
Waterchill KT12-L30
Abit AI7
Ge-Force4 Ti4200

 

[etp777]

I agree with these comments, especially as depending on what you're doing, a 10K drive isn't really any faster than a 7200rpm drive. All it manages often is just to be louder and run hotter.