What is the best use for a 10K rpm scsi hard drive?

[Haopengyou]

I believe it is 18GB, but it might be 9 GB. I am putting together 2 systems, one as a media center and one as a server for printers, bluetooth, wifi, etc. (I have college students come to my home all the time and they like to "tap in" to my signal.

I will be doing some recording off of tv as well as some video transfer from camcorders or even vcr. DVD rendering is an ongoing part of life. I will be putting a blue ray player in my media center, even though now it has a 3.06 ghz P4. I hope I can play bluerays on that - I know there is only a slight chance that I will be able to .

Is there some function that a 10K HD would really made a difference? I picked it up once when it was on sale - couldn't pass the bargain

I also have a 500gb and 200gb 7200 rpm sata to play with.

[edDV]

Not from your description of priorities. Gamers are the main users if these drives. They crash often and want a fast boot. More advanced games load textures real time via AGP or PCIe.

The 10K drives are not fast enough for reliable uncompressed video capture but fewer may be needed to construct a RAID.

For CAD and high resolution photography, a fast drive assigned to scratch duty (active data) can speed X-Y scan movement.

Solid State Drives (SSD) are slowly replacing fast hard drives.

For media server duty, a 10k drive would make no difference except for noise level. For server duty it would make a diffference only if multi-user demand is high.

[edDV]

...I will be putting a blue ray player in my media center, even though now it has a 3.06 ghz P4. I hope I can play bluerays on that - I know there is only a slight chance that I will be able to ...

Hard disk speed is not at all important for Blu-Ray playback. Top bit rates for Blu-Ray optical media is only ~40 Mb/s vs >960Mb/s (120MB/s) for a Raptor. More important is a compatible software player, display card and full HDCP support to the monitor.

Blu-Ray playback is an encryption, GPU and software issue, not a bit rate issue.

[lordsmurf]

I thought standard SCSI SAN was 15k now, not 10k.

[jagabo]

Doorstop. It's a 10 year old drive.

[jman98]

Is there some function that a 10K HD would really made a difference? I picked it up once when it was on sale - couldn't pass the bargain

I had to laugh. You're just like one of my co-workers. He's always getting free or heavily discounted crap equipment and he often ends up doing nothing with it other than trying to give it to me (I won't take it) rather than admitting its useless and throwing it away. 18 GB? Not really much use for that anymore.

[lacywest]

As I have mentioned B4 ... I play Crysis and Crysis Warhead ... Singularity ... and other games ... and they all play fine on my Maxtor 500 GB external USB drive.

I actually only have one drive in my tower ... a Seagate 80GB Sata 1 Drive. And it is dual boot ... XP MCE 2005[40GB] and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 [40GB].

The USB drive is set up to be my ... "D" Drive and it is also the drive that the Media Center uses to record TV shows to.

I have currently ... Six ... 500GB external USB drives ... Walmart is selling a WD 500GB for 55 bucks and a Seagate for 69 Bucks ... no need to clutter my tower with hard drives when these USB drives work just fine.

As for the voltages displayed ... 6.41 ... instead of 12 volts ... beats me why ... CPUID HWMon Pro 1.08 ... shows the voltages so low ... the actual reading is ... 11.91 volts.

Here is a image of my status of my 80GB Seagate hard drive ... I've had it for a few years ... LOL ... and here are some images of what my other devices are doing .

[jagabo]

The local Fry's ad shows 1.5 TB Western Digital drives for $68 today. Refurbs though.

[lacywest]

Just to throw out the question ... just how reliable are the 1.5 TB drives these days ... Jagabo ... is it a USB device ?

[jagabo]

Sorry, I should have mentioned, it's an internal SATA drive. I can't vouch for the reliability but it only has a 90 day warranty!

[lacywest]

As for the new USB 1.5 GB drives ... I like this design ... does not sit up ... lays down flat on table ... no worry of falling over and perhaps getting damaged inside ...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-2TB-USB-2.0-External-Hard-Drive/13989204

[lordsmurf]

The one you show is too bulky, mostly hollow, waste of space.
I prefer this design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BH4OY8?ie=UTF8&tag=thdifa-20&linkCode=as2&camp=17...SIN=B002BH4OY8
This one also comes in Firewire 400 and eSATA. I have the black version with fw400, in 1.5TB size.

[edDV]

I've got 4x 1.5GB internal SATA drives (WD and Segate). No problems so far.

I'm backing up my 2005-6 500GB drives that are starting to fail.

[lacywest]

The one you show is too bulky, mostly hollow, waste of space.
I prefer this design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BH4OY8?ie=UTF8&tag=thdifa-20&linkCode=as2&camp=17...SIN=B002BH4OY8
This one also comes in Firewire 400 and eSATA. I have the black version with fw400, in 1.5TB size.


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I've got 3 of them in the 500GB size ... the silver ones ... USB 2.0 only. One of them sits on top of my tower in my bedroom [held in place with velcro strips ... so my cats wont knock it off] and the other one sits beside my bedroom tower ... slightly wedged in place ... under my TV ... on my dresser. The 3rd one sits on my work table.
The two in the bedroom are for recording TV Shows and my wife's old classic movies. One stays there and the second one is moved to the PC in the garage where I process the videos from my ... HD PVCR ... into watchable DVD Videos.

Smurf ... I dont disagree with you very often ... I dont think I ever have ... but the Seagate uses up more real estate on my work table then the WD design. But my WD design is square ... on all four corners ... does not have any sloping ends.

[lacywest]

The two Westen Digital USB Drives ... I have two of them ... 500GB each ... I use one on my worktable in the garage. The second one is for my wife's daughter to use and her teenage son [previous marriage] ... I like it because it is flat.

Pictures to follow ... stand by. Heh ... Heh ... I just ripped opened the two Seagate USB drives and saved the electronics ... they didn't open up gracefully ... ... and I used a Dust Pan whisk broom to brush them off ... being out in the garage they get kind of dusty ...

As can be seen ... I put labels on them ... makes it easier to identify them.





The other image is the WD drive sitting way over on the far end of my work table. Sometimes a person wont even know it is there because I've got all kinds of crap buried on top of it.

[Haopengyou]

Sorry, it is a 15K drive, not a 10K, and it is about 3 years old now