Fastest HDD?

[Butcher]

I run a pair of SATA HGST 7K250s for mass storage, decently fast and very quiet.
I have an atlas 15K II for speed. Fastest drive available AFAIK. And it's fast, like the proverbial off a shovel.

For decent reviews of HDDs hit www.storagereview.com rather than THG or such.

[TheAnimus]

I run a pair of SATA HGST 7K250s for mass storage, decently fast and very quiet.
I have an atlas 15K II for speed. Fastest drive available AFAIK. And it's fast, like the proverbial off a shovel.

For decent reviews of HDDs hit www.storagereview.com rather than THG or such.

I've got some Atlas II's and i'm not a fan, too hot, too loud. Whilst that goes with the 15k rpm territory, its the seagates are better overall imo.

[Butcher]

I found them pretty quiet (for a 15k anyway), of course nothing like a 7200rpm SATA disk for noise, but certainly not too bad. It's certainly a lot quieter and cooler than my old seagate 15k disk.

[TheAnimus]

hmm, which gen was the cheater? MK II i found more silent, the MK I was useful for making custurd (shakes to mix it, and keeps it nice and warm).

I've also had an Atlas II fail. But it only took em 9 days to RMA.

[Rabs]

SATA - got to be the WD Raptor 74GB - in general home use/games etc it leaves others standing.

Overall Seagate Cheetah 15K series - no competition (read lots on these - but I cant justify the cost) - the new IBM/Hitachi (whatever) looks good though - wouldn't like to speculate on reliability though :/

[Butcher]

hmm, which gen was the cheater? MK II i found more silent, the MK I was useful for making custurd (shakes to mix it, and keeps it nice and warm).

I've also had an Atlas II fail. But it only took em 9 days to RMA.

Nice thing about scsi disks - 5 year warranty on all.

Was a first gen cheetah, screamed like a banshee.

[Nox]

IBM got a bad rep for their deathstars, but most HD manufacturers have had a bad rep at some point in time, WD, fujitsu and maxtor certainly.

The only brands I can't recall a large scale widely known problem with have been Seagate and Hitachi. Not really too sure what the IBM/Hitachi relationship is, are they making IBM spec drives and selling them themselves or what?

Ultimately, unless you get caught in a bad batch of drives, you stand as much chance at loosing all your data as the next manufacturer - I don't think anyone is making particularly bad drives at the moment - they all have 3-5 yr warranties. And are these 'enterprise class' 24x7 drives (Maxline etc) made with (much) better components? When they only cost £5-10 more, and would that even cover the additional 2 years of warranty...?

http://www.storagereview.com/php/ben...2=272&devCnt=3

Segate has no competition for 3rd place Firmly beaten by the Fujitsu MAU and Maxtor Atlas II series - unless they have released a new one since the 15k4?

Nox

[TheAnimus]

Nice thing about scsi disks - 5 year warranty on all.

Was a first gen cheetah, screamed like a banshee.

7 year on my seagates

Yeh the first gens were fast, but woh did they shake things up, i had one come loose from all 4 screws ops:

As people don't trust IBM for the deathstars, i don't trust fujitsu for their massive recall.

As to the storage review link, my atlas II's are only 73gig, but they do make a LOT more heat, i have to keep the HDD fan on for them, or else they get hotter than the xeons in that box :jawdrop: I tend to take those reviews with a pinch of salt!

I benched a slight favour for the maxtors in my box, but they are on channel A where as the seagates are on channel B, which might make a difference (as the difference was so slight!).

But anyway, would any of us SCSI converts go for WD Raptor drives, i for one wouldn't (I have actually had some for a fortnight, was very un-impresesd, as my 10k.5 seagate was better all round, temp, sound, performance).

[Nox]

But anyway, would any of us SCSI converts go for WD Raptor drives, i for one wouldn't (I have actually had some for a fortnight, was very un-impresesd, as my 10k.5 seagate was better all round, temp, sound, performance).

I did, via IDE raid first. Still got scsi bits knocking around though, keep staring at them wondering if i've got enough to put a novel server together, just missing a case I think.

Nox

[Butcher]

http://www.storagereview.com/php/ben...2=272&devCnt=3

Segate has no competition for 3rd place Firmly beaten by the Fujitsu MAU and Maxtor Atlas II series - unless they have released a new one since the 15k4?

Interesting, shows both the MAU and Atlas II as being quieter than the 15k4, as well as faster.

But anyway, would any of us SCSI converts go for WD Raptor drives, i for one wouldn't (I have actually had some for a fortnight, was very un-impresesd, as my 10k.5 seagate was better all round, temp, sound, performance).

No, they're not fast enough to fill my scsi spot, and not cheap/quiet/big enough to fill my SATA spot.