pentium 3.00/blindingly fast ram/bourd, what hardi

[smax1]

having the most pucker bits like 3.00g/h`s proccesers 400cl2 ram, high bandwidth systems etc, what are the options when lookin at buying a disk....like r they the new bootleneck in a system....witch hardrive/s can make the most from these systems and in what configeration, or am I just being paraniod bout things I,m reading right now....I,m certainly not giong to spend all that dosh only to find my modern IDE drive is the slacker....as I was about to do until I did a little more digging. I was under the immpression that a modern drive was as good as ever so I researched it no more only to find that thats not neccarsarily the case......so it`s back ultra wide scsi 3 or what, mmh any replies appreciated.S.

 

[elzt]

Check out the <A HREF="http://www.wdc.com/en/products/WD360GD.asp" target="_new">WD Raptor</A> which should be what you're looking for. Or if money is not an object, then get two of those in raid0 and your system would fly.

 

[smax1]

OUCH, thats a bit pricey, thought I could get away with my 7200 modern IDE, thats serial ata yeah, I thought they were not really worth it yet......(serial interface)I guess thats compatable with standard ide yeah !........anyway thanx, also 10,000rpm....r they very noisy.......! S.

 

[smax1]

opps your link went straight to the external version....my wallet pocket went boingy boingy....the internal version looks resonable..thanks 4 the info...... S.

 

[unoc]

Make a RAID 0 or 5 array using the new four channels Promise SX4000. It is amazingly fast.
It can be installed in a 32 or 64 bit PCI slot and if you use four UATA 100 hd (no matter which drive), they can be from WD or IBM or Maxtor, you will top the bandwidth of the PCI bus reaching up to 120 MB/s (yes, 133 MB/s are only a dream) for transfer rate while reading. You will also be able to install a huge 256 MB cache memory on the controller. However I suggest to use a RAID 5 configuration which is almost as fast as a RAID 0, but will use 25% of the whole disk array room for parity information. The system will recuperate all data even in the occurrence that a drive fails. RAID 5 with the Promise SX4000 allows a transfer rate of about 110 MB/s on a 32 bit PCI bus or about 160 MB/s on a 64 bit PCI bus. What about Raptor ?
Consider also that the raptor is very expensive ($/GB) and noisy.

...Ahhhh? , ok, ok ...I am turning off the computer.

 

[smax1]

So I,m assuming that hardrives are more of a factor than I had previously assumed. A raid configeration does sound the way to go from what i,v heard but not having investigated hardrives I have absolutly no idea on how a raid config works...safe to say then that a standard ide drive will not serve up the goodies listed in a real working audio/video situation....there are so many questions I want to ask but unfortunatly I dont know what they are yet.....The Promise controller is a pci card I,m assuming.....with standard memory slots !....110mb/s bandwidth and up and the other bits and bobs you mentioned sounds dreamy, I will have to go away and investergate these factors....thanx......I,ll be back. S.

 

[smax1]

I,d just like to try and clarify from what unoc said up there to what exstent my listed goodies would suffer from not having a more advanced raid setup, meaning would there be a noticable bottleneck from a standard ide system ie- what speed is standard ide etc, any replies appreciated.. S.

 

[smax1]

got it thanks

 

[unoc]

Please read in this thread the subject "RAID FAQ" by Hammerbot.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by unoc on 05/05/03 04:07 AM.</EM></FONT></P>