Author: Slater Wold
Date: 11:12:37 06/11/02
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On June 11, 2002 at 09:56:37, Roy Eassa 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. > > > >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.) Sure. I would also say that a 900mhz PC is fast enough for most users. But I have a Dual AMD 1.73Ghz. Go figure.
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