Author: Slater Wold
Date: 21:45:32 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 21:25:40, Robert Henry Durrett 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. > > >I am interested in knowing what one has to do to take full advantage of a HD >with 5.4 ms seek time. Once the super-fast HD has "seeked" :), how does one get >the information to the place where it's needed [somewhere in the >microprocessor?]? If the method for doing this is slow, then maybe wasted money >on an expensive HD? With IDE, you have to do all sorts of crap. You have to make sure it's UDMA, and the settings are right, and this and that. I bought a digital video camera a while back, and I also got some digital editing equipment. Now, on my Dual AMD 1.4Ghz system, I was using 1 WD 40GB ATA100 HD. I brought everything home, and the digital editting software told me to return it. My HD was too slow. After a day or so of speaking with some WD people, some Tyan people, some software people, and trying to figure out what I needed to do, I got the HD to work. (Speeded it up in other words.) It still was performing like crap. About 3 months ago, I went out and bought 4 36.7GB Fuji 10k RPM SCSI HDs. I also bought them their own case. Came home, plugged the case into the back of my computer (on my SCSI card) and they were installed. Formatted them under Windows 2000, and opened up my digital editing software. These HDs would not only do FINE, they would also outperform my IDE HD by over 30%. (That means, 30% less time to make the same movie.) No hassle, no talking to anyone. Just plugging them in. 30% faster. >Same question for going the other way, too. > >Please pretend my question is not ignorant about SCSI & IDE. I really want to >know. Even if it was, I'm not someone to flame. An honest question deserves an honest answer. Basically, SCSI is easier to use, more reliable, and MUCH faster. However, just like houses, cars, boats, etc.; the nicer, faster, better the item, the more expensive it is. That's just how it works. >Bob D. Hope this helps.
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