Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 06:56:37 06/11/02
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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. As a long-time Mac user (and PC user too), I have owned *many* SCSI drives, both internal and external. I've had systems with 3 separate SCSI buses. I don't do movie editing or anything like that, and for me it was a *good* thing when Apple stopped using SCSI and went with the much cheaper IDE/ATA. Yes, I've lost some flexibility (external drives, many drives on one chain) but today you can buy a 120 GB internal IDE drive for under $1 a gigabyte! Wouldn't you say that, for everyday use, IDE is completely adequate? (PS: for external hard drives, I now use FireWire, which is just an IDE drive in a case with a circuit that "converts" IDE to/from FireWire, but which is hot-pluggable unlike SCSI.)
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