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albundy |
Sooo...can i use it on my current SATA controller or do i need to get a sas controller? I dont feel like reading up on the tech, so if anyone can enlighten me...
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blase |
Not to sound insane/bragging...but I hope they offer a "low" capacity version of this drive. Their 147GB versions of the 15K spindle drives were in the 4 figure range the one time I *did* bother checking. After that I realized it would never be something worthwhile.
I do however have a great deal of use for their 18GB models. They're affordable, I'm NOT counting on a $/MB scale, just the hit to the wallet. So, as I realized waiting on drive I/O was one of the biggest things holding me back, I setup a RAID 5 OS and applications array. It's blazingly fast for running what it's meant for. My large amounts of data on the other hand could live on multiple 300GB 5400rpm drives for all I care though. I've eliminated the biggest bottleneck that I face. I don't need fast graphics because I'm not a gamer, but I do need a LOT of cheap HIGH density storage. Then when these drives come to market - put me down for 4 (36GB? probably) drives. I'll be mounting them horizontally though, hope that won't prove to be a problem. ;) Vista will boot up in less than 10 minutes if I can stream in 125 MB/s from each drive!! |
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Usacomp2k3 |
Hahaha. Yeah right. That's like ....ok, can't come up with an analogy :P
125mb/sec sustained? Nice. |