Fastest Hard Drive For PC

[Dawny]

Hi

I heard that there are hard drives with a high speed of 15,000RPM but with SCSI interface. I heard also there is a SATA III hard drive that comes with a lesser speed in 10,000RPM and I learned it is the highest speed a SATA III hard drive could reach.

I'm going for hard drives because I need large capacity for reasonable price. Any help in this regard? Which is the top speed, highest quality, excellent performanxe hard drive recommended? And must I go for SCSI or SATA III?

 

[13thmonkey]

what do you need that much speed for? wd raptors run at 10krpm, but are smaller in capacity. just get 4 7200rpm drives in raid 5 (or 0 if you don't care about the data that's on them).

 

[13thmonkey]

If you want it for a personal computer I strongly recommend you to go for SATA 3, because SCSI hard drives are more expensive and you need a SCSI to SATA bridge adapter card. I suggest the following:

1st: Get multiple 10k RPM hard disk drive (Go to this link for more info: http://www.sata3ssd.com/the-best-fastest-hard-disk-drives-hdd/)
2nd: RAID 0 all of them.

I prefer RAID 0 to RAID 5 for two reasons: a). RAID 5 requires minimum 3 hard drives while you can use 2 with RAID 0. b). The write speed on RAID 5 is slow, while on RAID 0 it is much faster.

Hope I have helped. Pick me as best answer plz 😀

and if a single disk fails on raid 0 you lose EVERYTHING, even if it is just a time out and not a full failure, whereas raid5 allows for a single disk failure.

so the question is still do you actually need that much speed, what purpose are you using it for?

 

[13thmonkey]

Yes you are right 13thmonkey. I was just assuming he needs something similar to an SSD. So I am giving him the solution. A semi SSD constructed solely from HDD

So exactly the same as i what suggested but without the added warning?

 

[13thmonkey]

Well, almost. Just supposing he is a newbie and would appreciate some more details

so you leave out the risks, link him to your own website, so what do you mean by 'some more details' get paid for the click through to amazon?

please think before answering.