Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:37:19 06/10/02
Go up one level in this thread
On June 10, 2002 at 22:52:47, David Dory wrote: >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 LOL - I assure you, my blood pressure was well within the normal limits the entire time, I think. Sometimes typed words show a different emotion than what's actually trying to be conveyed. I apologize. But, um, yea, SCSI rocks. IDE is slow. Even with 8MB of cache. ;)
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.