Can I use a 15,000 rpm cheetah?

[proof]

I just ordered my 5th Raptor!

 

[Fedor]

Why do you need so many? Surely you don't use them for general storage?

By the way, I just noticed your modified signature...
"Seagate Cheetah 15k 18GB"
Your Cheetahs cant be the 15k.4 variety.

 

[proof]

don't have room for .4 only 255 and i just swapped out my 36GB for the 18GB.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Ya well you might be a tad faster, but I have the most storage.



Just purchased a 50tb server. (not all for me mind you, but still).
@ Home: 4x 500gb maxtor
2x 100gb maxtor
2x 320gb
------------- Being used

 

[proof]

Damn!!!

 

[Fedor]

I certainly don't have the money for a 50tb server, but at home I've got something quite similar to yours. 5 x 500GB WD RE2 YS in RAID5 on an Adaptec 2810sa, and separately non-raided 2 x 300GB and 2 x 400GB Seagate 7200.8s. I don't bother counting my SCSIs since they are small and not used for storage anyway!

 

[proof]

Yeah, My 5th Raptor will go in my brother's rig.

My storage: 1126400MB
250GB
250GB
150GB
150GB
150GB
150GB

 

[Fedor]

It would be a lot easier if you didn't use Raptors for actual storage (as opposed to running the system), since they provide awful value for money and you don't need fast drives for pictures, audio, video, whatever it is you might have in volume.

 

[mhw100]

So I'm going to use the 150gb Raptors radi0 for system speed and a Seagate 250gb for nightly backup. This is way beyond my storage needs but should I perhaps use the 250gb instead for say non-Windows non-trading application software e.g. Office, pics, other personal stuff etc. Does this help the overall speed of the system to do this?

Also, I assume I want the page file on the raided raptors??? I've 4GB of Ram.

Thanks.

 

[Fedor]

With 4 gigs of RAM, you should seriously consider disabling the pagefile altogether.

As for putting programs on the other drive, I think that would be slower than having it on the Raptors, even if you still use a pagefile. If you disable it, then definitely keep it on the Raptors. Usually its having programs/games on one drive and the pagefile on another that really quickens things up [by that I'm just pointing out that its not having apps and windows on separate drives that makes the difference, but the pagefile].

If this setup is way beyond your storage needs, get two 74 or 36 gig Raptors instead and save some money!

 

[proof]

They are for games. My Barracudas are for storage. My Cheetah is for my OS.

 

[Fedor]

So what Cheetah have you downgraded to? You'd definitely be better off using a Raptor for your OS than an old Cheetah!

 

[proof]

Not old, it is still a 15k Cheetah. I will find the model number for you. It is a 2.99ms seek time so it is definately a little faster than the Raptor when booting and stuff.

 

[Fedor]

Well at best its a 15k.3... Guess what, the first gen 15K Cheetah has less than a quarter of the performance of an ADFD Raptor in single-user benchmarks. So "still a 15k Cheetah" doesn't mean all that much I'm afraid. And it sure won't boot any faster either, transfer rates come into play during bootup and no matter which 18GB 15K Cheetah it is, even if it's the .3, its significantly slower than a Raptor!

After everything that we have discussed here as a group I would think that you would have caught the fact that seek times rarely play a role at all in single-user environments. Even the first Cheetah from 7 years ago has a faster seek time than a Raptor, but you sure as heck don't want to be using that thing!

 

[proof]

Yeah, true. I am just trying to figure out the best performing setup from what I have so I am just messing around with some stuff.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

How about you...

1.) leave your computer on
2.) go get coffee while it boots
3.) twiddle your thumbs for 1.9482 seconds longer

 

[proof]

HAHAHAHAHA!

 

[babaghan]

My 9-year old nephew told me, "Cheetahs never prosper" 😀