Oh my, I didn't know these exist

[rallynavvie]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-042&depa=0

Hmmm, should I wait until they come out with the 15krpm version or do you think it'll have so much rotational mass that I'll be able to balance my computer on its edge.

[ViRaL1]

They've been around for a few months at least. Might even see 400GBs soon.

[mujahid7ia]

Damn, SCSI drives cost a fortune! I was planning on one awhile ago, but the cost got to me...

[glockjs]

very nyyyce. if i had stupid money to spend i think i would order a couple...but no, im just a simple workin joe and lookin at that price tag i would spend it towards building a computer...yeah like the whole thing the whole computer

[Garibaldi]

I'm almost positive I saw a 400GB hd in an ad on Thanksgiving Weekend. I guess we are going to reach the TeraByte level in not too long.

[waheed]

love to have one of those, but a little out of my budget.

Anyone care to make a donation

[bazooka]

At 10,000 rpms, that will run extremely hot.

[aanaravs]

I'm almost positive I saw a 400GB hd in an ad on Thanksgiving Weekend. I guess we are going to reach the TeraByte level in not too long.

I did too. Let me see where I saw it.

[ViRaL1]

400GB drives have been around for 2 or 3 quarters. Just not SCSI. Hitachi / IBM had cornered the market until Seagate came out with theirs. No idea where Maxtor and WD are in all of this.

[rallynavvie]

I could care less about large IDE storage. The fact that there is a 300GB SCSI drive out there at 10krpm rotational speeds blew me away. I remember the 147GB models but wishing there was one closer to 200GB to compete with the size of IDE drives. I've been seriously considering swapping out all my drive space in the new workstation with SCSI so this is news to me. Availability of drives that big may push the other U320 drives down to more affordable prices. Ideally I'd like to run a nested RAID boot drive of something like four 36GB 15krpm drives, and then have a storage array of two 147GB drives in RAID 1. I just got my 133 MHz PCI-X U320 RAID HBA in there so I'm just pulling at my chains to get an entire U320 RAID system.

[ViRaL1]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245987 :P

EDIT: Don't mind me, I'm just jealous.

I've thought about spending the money on SCSI, but I just don't have enough practical use for it myself to justify it. If you're putting it to use it's definitely a good investment.

[tekkieman]

That's still less than we used to pay for the Seagate 1.6G SCSI when they first caame out! We made a NLE system, and stored one field each drive. We could hold a whopping one hour of video on the combined drives. Of course, it was heavily compressed.

[IAIHMB]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-148-042&depa=0

Hmmm, should I wait until they come out with the 15krpm version or do you think it'll have so much rotational mass that I'll be able to balance my computer on its edge.

Why don't you just get two 7,200 RPM drives and run them on RAID 0, it will out perform a 10,000 RPM and you will save a bit of money. Of course, if you've got that kind of cash, you could always run two 10,000 RPM drives at RAID 0. :P

[rallynavvie]

Two striped 7200rpm drives won't outperform a single 10krpm drive in every aspect, only sustained/peak data transfer, and then only if the interface is the same. It'll never beat the 10k drive in access/seek times though. I have a pair of 15k drives that I had striped for a while and those ran an OS like you wouldn't believe. Pagefile on the boot drive? Bah, it didn't care.

Also I don't think there are any 7200rpm U320 drives. I think the interface almost requires 10k rotational speeds now.