On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 12:29 pm, A. Kruze wrote:
I've been looking into an HD upgrade for some time now and still don't know what's best.
Reading up on that solution I find there are IDE controllers from various manufacturers in RAID and non-RAID flavors and speeds ranging from ATA 33 to133. Some of these cards have a 137 GB ceiling though. Then there's all the different brands of cheap IDE drives. Some having a 2MB buffer others with 8MB, 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM. WD and Maxtor seeming to be the best deals I've seen in the 80GB to 200GB range.
I didn't go this route so I can't really tell you if this is the way to go. I continued using SCSI internally but bought a 20 gig, 10,000 rpm Cheetah that made me think I had a new 7300. I was running OS X on the 7300 with a drive that was rated at 7200 rpm and found that boot up time was cut in half, that programs ran faster overall. But if you need super space perhaps buying a SIIG from OWC with one of those drives would be your best bet.
We just had a thread on drive speeds not being the be all. What came out of that discussion: Look at manufacture date because newer drives that may be rated slower than older drives may have faster seek times; look at the seek times for the drives.
Then again. for us, we may be limited by the PCI bus speed for throughput. If this is wrong someone out there should correct me.
Jim S
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