Author: Slater Wold
Date: 16:33:28 06/10/02
Go up one level in this thread
On June 10, 2002 at 13:31:02, David Dory wrote: >On June 10, 2002 at 11:03:41, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>Just wondering if anyone had tested this hard drive with any of the >>chess programs. This model has the large 8 meg cache. >> >>http://store.westerndigital.com/product.asp?sku=1903921 >> >>kburcham > >For single user's, this drive has tested faster than most SCSI drives. It also >has the 3 year warranty, rather than the normal 2 year of Western's other IDE >drives. With it's huge cache, it should indeed be a winner! > >David Huh? Do you know why an IDE HD has to have cache? Because ALL HD's are SCSI. IDE's have to add a special "filter" to interpet from this. Therefore, you much cache the info to be "filtered". The day I see an IDE drive with a seek time of < 6.0ms, is the day I go back to IDE. 10k RPM SCSI drives are very close nowadays in price to IDE drives, and this drive will NEVER beat a 10k RPM SCSI drive. _EVER_. My 36.7GB Fuji 10k SCSI has an average seek time of 5.4ms. This 100MB WD 7200RPS has an average seek time of 8.9ms. 8.9ms is S L O W. And of course, my HD has a 3 year warranty as well.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.