I'm toying with the idea of getting two 18Gb 15K SCSI drives and a raid card. Trouble is, I'm limited to PCI. So, should I go for this, or try and get two cheap 36Gb raptors?
Well, the SATA2 WD Raptors are equally fast, saves you buying a PCI card. The price you pay for all of that you could probably get a 74gb Raptor, or maybe 2.
The drives would be £20ish each so the SCSI setup wouldn't be expensive. When are the new 74Gb Raptors coming out? The ones with 16mb cache?
Oops, well, now I look like a fool Last time I looked at SCSI was a couple of years back, so i'll leave this thread be now
Dont buy it new, is what I'll say. Too pricey. Nothing wrong with used SCSI as its reliable\long lasting compared to regular SATA\IDE drives.
A pair of drives no, but a decent SCSI RAID5 array will run at well over 250Mb/s. I've seen 400Mb/s before but that's from a fibre channel SAN.
I'd recommend actually hearing 2 15k disks running before you commit to it. In a home PC I feel 10k in raid arrays are loud enough
Another vote for 2nd hand Scsi setups here - they really are awesome if you want quick access in games and on the desktop. There are several problems at the moment, the larges one being that the PCI interface is horribly limiting , and though you still get good seek times, the throughput is completely saturated by one drive, never mind 2/5/20! Have a peak at the thread I set up a while ago - might answer a few questions! Scsi - the future? I wouldn't go back - but then I do accept that they have issues (noise/size/cost) But then I think they are worth all that and more!
