The Hitachi drives went for $320 on sale today at bestbuy.com I'm impressed by the number of platters in the Samsung, but that cache would keep me from buying it over the Hitachi. This will make for nice upgrades in the future though.
I'd be with you crash, to upgrade my current 1tb (3x500) array - BUT - intel needs to upgrade their integrated raid controller to a) support volume expansion and b) to allow more than 4 drives on an array. It's far past time that consumer level raid that intel is pushing have these capabilities otherwise the stand alone network storage raid boxes cost less than buying a separate controller and building one yourself.
cache size would not make much of difference unless your system requires high number of i/o operations on many tiny files; the difference was only marginal
based on my previous experience on raptor 150gb 8mb cache raid & 150gb 16mb cache version, practically, there was no difference.
for large volume, i would like to have drives with low power & low noise. having multiple drives running 24/7 will make considerably impact on your electric bill especially during summer when you need to use a/c.
for this, i would choose samsung although 5 year warranty of seagate is also tempting, but 7200.8 series drives still keep me from buying anything from seagate
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ph30nix @ Jun 19th 2007 4:23AM
biggie...who cares?
The Hitachi drives went for $320 on sale today at bestbuy.com
I'm impressed by the number of platters in the Samsung, but that cache would keep me from buying it over the Hitachi. This will make for nice upgrades in the future though.
LightningCrash @ Jun 19th 2007 9:30AM
on-drive cache makes no difference in RAID arrays
i'm in for 4 Seagates as soon as they hit the streets! mmm, 3TB of goodness. by goodness i mean porn. and by mmm i mean fap fap fap fap fap.
JSM @ Jun 19th 2007 9:29AM
I'd be with you crash, to upgrade my current 1tb (3x500) array - BUT - intel needs to upgrade their integrated raid controller to a) support volume expansion and b) to allow more than 4 drives on an array. It's far past time that consumer level raid that intel is pushing have these capabilities otherwise the stand alone network storage raid boxes cost less than buying a separate controller and building one yourself.
Ben @ Jun 19th 2007 10:22AM
I have Samsung drives and I think their spinpoint's are the best out there for those that like silent drives ....
shimman @ Jun 19th 2007 1:35PM
cache size would not make much of difference unless your system requires high number of i/o operations on many tiny files; the difference was only marginal
based on my previous experience on raptor 150gb 8mb cache raid & 150gb 16mb cache version, practically, there was no difference.
for large volume, i would like to have drives with low power & low noise. having multiple drives running 24/7 will make considerably impact on your electric bill especially during summer when you need to use a/c.
for this, i would choose samsung although 5 year warranty of seagate is also tempting, but 7200.8 series drives still keep me from buying anything from seagate