This thread will be partially asking for opinions and partly seeking solid data.
The fact-finding portion is simple: WHY do IDE drives top out at 7200rpm when SCSI's got 15k and has had 10k for forever in computing terms? What hardware/technical reason for this is there, if any?
And the opinion portion: Does anyone think that SATA might be the excuse companies like Seagate need to finally bring performance to the mainstream? I think, or more accurately hope, it will.
I think of the hard drive as the worst bottleneck in any system (everything else is measured in nanoseconds, not even micro, and then the hard drive comes in at milliseconds, how awful!), so it's the thing I spend the most time focusing on when I try to build a new system, but I can never get over the price. FOUR TIMES THE COST for a couple of milliseconds of savings (by the time you add the SCSI adapter cost, that's what you're looking at).
So, I think there'd be a HUGE market out there for HIGH PERFORMANCE ATA drives. I don't mean the crap people call "high performance" today on the ATA side; I'm talking 10kRPM or even 15k.
Hopefully Serial ATA will get us there.
I might post a poll soon asking if people would buy a 10kRPM SATA drive for a SATA-ready system at a similar price to a SCSI drive (but with the advantage of NOT having the added cost of a SCSI controller). I know I would buy such a drive if it existed, so the market certainly wouldn't be nonexistant.
The fact-finding portion is simple: WHY do IDE drives top out at 7200rpm when SCSI's got 15k and has had 10k for forever in computing terms? What hardware/technical reason for this is there, if any?
And the opinion portion: Does anyone think that SATA might be the excuse companies like Seagate need to finally bring performance to the mainstream? I think, or more accurately hope, it will.
I think of the hard drive as the worst bottleneck in any system (everything else is measured in nanoseconds, not even micro, and then the hard drive comes in at milliseconds, how awful!), so it's the thing I spend the most time focusing on when I try to build a new system, but I can never get over the price. FOUR TIMES THE COST for a couple of milliseconds of savings (by the time you add the SCSI adapter cost, that's what you're looking at).
So, I think there'd be a HUGE market out there for HIGH PERFORMANCE ATA drives. I don't mean the crap people call "high performance" today on the ATA side; I'm talking 10kRPM or even 15k.
Hopefully Serial ATA will get us there.
I might post a poll soon asking if people would buy a 10kRPM SATA drive for a SATA-ready system at a similar price to a SCSI drive (but with the advantage of NOT having the added cost of a SCSI controller). I know I would buy such a drive if it existed, so the market certainly wouldn't be nonexistant.