Author: David Dory
Date: 19:52:47 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 19:33:28, Slater Wold wrote: >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. Well, I sure can't find the review I was reading on this drive. StorageReview.com has set me straight, however. * This drive is certainly slower than SCSI drives * Now I know how to get your blood pressure pumped up, anyway. <grin> David
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