Concerning the speed you will not find much difference between the brands,
but Seagate is famous for the reliability and high quality of its
SCSI disks. And as I see from your message the price is even lower then
it is for Fujitsu, that caused me lots trouble because of SCSI HDD damages (I do not
talk about Fujitsu IDE HDD - every second of them broke in less then a year :).
Regards
Ray
Gerard Beekmans wrote:
Hi there,
Maybe you guys can advise me on some SCSI questions.
Everybody knows that SCSI is faster than IDE. Even people who don't _really_ know, still know this. This makes it hard to get some good info how much faster things really are. And sure, I can drop by MemoryExpress and drop down $800 for a SCSI adapter and harddisk (36.7GB 10 000rpm Ultra160 SCSI, 68-pin with a Adaptec SCSI Card 19160 kit) that should give me a lot more speed than my current Western Digital Caviar disk that gives me about 45 MB/sec according to hdparm (at udma5).
So, at first sight, 160 MB/sec (up to that amount anyway) is a lot faster than 45 MB/sec. But how realistic is it to attain those speeds?
Then of course different brands of disks. The above disc is a Fujitsu at $380. How about a $300 Seagate 36.7GB Cheetah 10K.6, Ultra320 SCSI, 68-pin. Or Maxtor has a $260 36 GB Ultra320.
Lots of choice and I have no clue what to pick. There's even a nice looking Serial ATA for $214 at 10K RPM.
And I know MemoryExpress isn't the cheapest. Just the only store I know of that sells SCSI. I wouldn't mind some referrals to stores that sell SCSI at better rates. I'm not opposed to buying online, as long as the company is reputable.
Thanks,
