SCSI Drives
Below, you can check out our breakdown of each SCSI drive per GB. Not all of the SCSI products available are listed, but some of the newer Seagate 15K.4 drives are included as a point of reference.Most likely, the people who need to buy a 15,000RPM SCSI drive have very little desire to scrape a dollar here or a dollar there by analyzing the current cost per GB (when CDW has the lowest price on a product, you know it's not your John Q public type of component). However, it is very interesting to see that the price on some of the more affordable SCSI drives is actually very competitive with some of the high end SATA Raptors. Whether or not you'd rather have two tiny Raptors in a RAID 0 configuration compared to one large Raptor is almost a matter of religion, but a 73GB Fujitsu 10RPM drive over a more expensive 73GB Raptor is surely a no brainier, if you have the bus capability, that is.
There has been some talk about 15,000RPM SATA II drives on the horizon; we may even see some demonstrations in time for Computex this year. The 15,000RPM Seagate 15K.4 drives are all over the place now, albeit at a price that is a little out of our reach. High performance SATA II 15,000RPM drives would certainly prove an interesting alternative to SCSI, but such drives would probably be marketed at a steeper price than a similar SCSI drive, much the same way that Western Digital Raptors are priced worse than the equivalent SCSI drive.
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zemane - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - link
#13:Thanks for the info Kristopher!
knightspawn1138 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
I'd like to see the Storage price guide include USB Flash drives (and USB thumb-drive mini-hard drives). Now that these drives are closing in on DVD's for storage size, they should be treated similar to the rest of the storage media. I for one would like to see a price guide for USB flash drives, since I've come to depend on a couple for use as boot disks on my PC.Doormat - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Yea! The prices on large (>= 300GB) SATA drives are finally starting to go down. Cant wait for Seagate 300GB drives to be $150/ea - two for $300! I remember when I bought two 60GXPs for that much. Now if I could only find a good inexpensive RAID card... you guys should do a RAID-5/6 card review (raidcore, 3ware, adaptec, areca, etc). I see that other sites have them, but I really dont trust those sites...KristopherKubicki - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
zemane: I like the 3520A better, but that is mostly due to the price. The write quality on the PX716A is a little better.On the other hand, if you need features like riplock, you don't even have the opportunity to use a modified BIOS on the plextor (unlike the NEC).
Kristopher
zemane - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
How does the NEC 3520A compares to the PLEXTOR PX-716A?KristopherKubicki - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
semo: That should read DW1625. Sorry!matthewfoley: I will do my best to implement that. Right now we just list core name as part of the processor name.
Kristopher
semo - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
i think something is wrong here (or it could just be me):"BenQ actually already began to phase out their 16X DW160 [RTPE: BenQ DW1620] in favor of the dual layer, dual format 16X DW160 [RTPE: BenQ DW1625], although the only real performance boost is 4X dual layer burning opposed to 2.4X ..."
what does dw160 mean and how can it be phased out in favour of itself (or am i not getting this right?)
anyway, it should be added that the dw1625 supports lightscribe technology. it may not be considered exciting or useful by many ppl but it is still worth a mention imo.
flatblastard - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
knowflatblastard - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Can't wait for that one, KK. I'm ready to buy one of them crazy numbered ased AMD processors anyday now....just waiting for ATI or Sapphire to get off their lazy bums and gimme the mobo/chipset that I want! I'm thinking 3500+/3800+ V or 3700+/4000+ SD. So hopefully soon I'll no more than that, hopefully ;)matthewfoley - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Could we get some sorting capability on the RTPE? For example, on processors, I'd like to see a separate column for name, core, price, and be able to order by that column.