Originally posted by: erickotz
Originally posted by: IgoByte
I have to ask: What's the point? This drive is no fastern than the WD1200JB, and is about the same price. It's a smaller drive, yet physically larger and produces about twice as much heat as the WD1200JB.
Just not sure about SCSI anymore...
Of course there are faster drives than the 120JB. The seek times on most scsi drives kill the seek times of the 120JB. I'm willing to bet real-world continuous transfer rates do also. The 120JB only shines on small file bursts out of its cache.
Additionally, SCSI is more reliable. Drive's have 10x the MTBF of IDE drives and 5 year warranties. Not to mention they are built better. This doesn't even mention the ability to have up to 15 drives on a scsi chain, as opposed to the measily 2 of IDE. Lastly, SCSI will handle multitasking better because drives can retrieve data in a different order than requests come in, whereas IDE has a FIFO arrangement.