SCSI
With the Ultra 320 SCSI drives, several have seen a decent price decrease while a few others have seen a slight increase in cost. If you’re looking for a 68-pin drive, down about $50, you can have the Maxtor Ultra320 147GB 10000RPM 8MB Atlas 10K V [RTPE: 8D147L0], which is at an all-time low of $300 shipped, bringing that to about $2.04 per GB. Going for roughly the same price per GB, the 80-pin Hitachi Ultra320 300GB 10000RPM 8MB Ultrastar 10K300 [RTPE: HUS103030FL3800] is at about $630 shipped.
For users looking to go with the newer SAS drives, do expect to pay a higher premium than for the Ultra 320 drives. The only two manufacturers producing the SAS drives are Maxtor and Seagate. The main difference between the two that we are noticing is that the Maxtor drives come with 16MB of cache while the Seagate drives come with 8MB of cache.
We can see that the Maxtor SAS 73.5GB 15000RPM 16MB Atlas 15K II SAS [RTPE: 8E073S0] is going for about $431 shipped. If you’re looking for a hard drive with a greater capacity, the Maxtor SAS 147GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D147S0] is also on sale for about $431. Both of these two drives are priced the same, but you have to make the choice between higher RPMs and more capacity.
With the Ultra 320 SCSI drives, several have seen a decent price decrease while a few others have seen a slight increase in cost. If you’re looking for a 68-pin drive, down about $50, you can have the Maxtor Ultra320 147GB 10000RPM 8MB Atlas 10K V [RTPE: 8D147L0], which is at an all-time low of $300 shipped, bringing that to about $2.04 per GB. Going for roughly the same price per GB, the 80-pin Hitachi Ultra320 300GB 10000RPM 8MB Ultrastar 10K300 [RTPE: HUS103030FL3800] is at about $630 shipped.
For users looking to go with the newer SAS drives, do expect to pay a higher premium than for the Ultra 320 drives. The only two manufacturers producing the SAS drives are Maxtor and Seagate. The main difference between the two that we are noticing is that the Maxtor drives come with 16MB of cache while the Seagate drives come with 8MB of cache.
We can see that the Maxtor SAS 73.5GB 15000RPM 16MB Atlas 15K II SAS [RTPE: 8E073S0] is going for about $431 shipped. If you’re looking for a hard drive with a greater capacity, the Maxtor SAS 147GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D147S0] is also on sale for about $431. Both of these two drives are priced the same, but you have to make the choice between higher RPMs and more capacity.
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rrcn - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link
We have addressed this concern at the beginning of the article. =)SnoMunke - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link
Hitachi has been producing SAS drives for awhile...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
rrcn - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link
Thanks for the heads up. We'll be adding it shortly. =)Souka - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link
Too bad they didn't mention the Samsung Spinpoint series.I was looking for a 250gb SATA to replace a old 100gb 2mb/cache IDE drive (giving to dad)... I checked out StorageReview.com and they had a VERY NICE round up of 250gb drives.
After looking at the data, I choose the Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA2 w/8mb cache drive. The drive is fast, and the coolest and quietest option in the group.
In this AT article they mentioned the Maxtor 250gb drive is a good bargain at 98$ shipped.... Well, I think the Samsung I bought for $97.99 shipped from NewEgg is a better deal.
My $.02.
Oh yeah, here's a link to the Storage Review review.... http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_1...">LINK
JarredWalton - Sunday, March 12, 2006 - link
As was mentioned in the article, there are a LOT of good deals on hard drives. WD, Samsung, Maxtor, and Hitachi all offer 250GB SATA 3.0Gbps drives for around $100, and any of those are worthy of consideration. Personally, I like the WD 16MB SE models, but the others are good as well. The Samsung drives *are* the quietest on the market, but there really isn't a massive difference between many of the HDDs... except that Maxtors are generally louder on seek noise. (Gary Key described them to me as "bongo drums" not to long ago! :) )