If you want to go larger and/or faster than the WD Raptor these days you still have to go Ultra2-SCSI. Quite expensive... [H]
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I'd assume we'll have to wait a while until we see the first 146 GB disks with 10.000 rpm
@Nick Batzdorf said:
Hm. I hadn't thought about the heat. And I have a 36 and 72 Raptor in one of my machines...I'd better check the cooling!
@Nick Batzdorf said:
Are there any 10K RPM SATA drives other than the Western Digital Raptors? The problem with them, of course, is that the largest ones are "only" 72GB.
@Nick Batzdorf said:
My understanding is that disks of all sizes cost the same to make. The difference is that the yield is lower for larger ones. (Which of course negates my first sentence, but the point remains!)
@cm said:
one thing that doesn't work at all for streaming is to use the type of onboard raid controllers from promise (and others) for creating a raid,
1) Donāt use Giga on your sequencer PC if possible.