Seagate's Momentus XT vs Seagate SAS

[ShadeZeRO]

I'm currently running two Seagate 15k.5 SAS Drives in RAID-0 on a dell perc 5/i controller.

Would anyone recommend going to the seagate momentus over that? SSD is just too expensive ATM. Unless I can get a 128GB SSD around the same price.

 

[Nintendesert]

I don't think the hybrid drive will live up to expectations with you running that setup you have there.

 

[dbcooper1]

I don't think you'd gain anything noticeable; the XT enhances the reads but does nothing for the writes and with the cache on your controller, you may see no difference at all.

 

[corkyg]

Stay with your Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives in the RAID0 array. Momentus XT is basically good for laptops with a single drive. Your scenario doesn't fit.

 

[Blain]

I'm currently running two Seagate 15k.5 SAS Drives in RAID-0 on a dell perc 5/i controller.

Would anyone recommend going to the seagate momentus over that?

No x 7

 

[ShadeZeRO]

I appreciate your input everyone! I'll be sticking with my current setup (Unless I go SSD) lol. But, I feel so 90's paying 2-3$/gb

 

[Nintendesert]

I appreciate your input everyone! I'll be sticking with my current setup (Unless I go SSD) lol. But, I feel so 90's paying 2-3$/gb

Wait a little longer, there's already a few deals out there with prices for SSDs at $1.16/Gb so we're getting there.

Since your setup works pretty well now, just stay with it and wait on the next gen drives that should offer amazing price/performance compared to this generation.

The Corsair P3-256 is looking to offer $1.6/gig prices.

 

[beginner99]

I agree with all in terms of speed but the hybrid drive will probably make like no noise compared to 2 15k drives... but probably a non-issue.

 

[Rubycon]

Comparing a MomentusXT to a Cheetah? Don't do it! Stay put or go SSD. XT is borderline fraud IMO. Your IOPS will drop like a barrel full of depleted uranium dropped in Lake Erie. You would not replace a pair of 15K drives with a pair of 7.2K notebook drives, right? That's what you'll get, no more!

As far as the noise - I miss the noise of sleet hammering down on a porthole when the machine is busy. (We don't see that kind of weather in these latitudes!) The SSDs are too darn quiet!

 

[Castiel]

15K SAS Drives? So jealous