Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 16 MB 300GB 3Gb/s - what's better?

John Weiss wrote:
"Dave (from the UK)" wrote...

If it wasn't for *nix OS, I would suggest to get two decent SATA drives in
RAID0 (BIOS).
Otherwise you may be happier with U320 SCSI drive.

BTW, I forgot to ask. What would be the "decent SATA drive" you suggest?

Assuming one did not go down the route of SCSI or RAID, what is the best
affordable SATA drive? Is there an obvious disk that would be better than the
Seagate in the subject line?


Depends on the definition of "affordable" and the size requirement...


As stated in the original post, the Raptors were I feel too expensive.

The WD Raptor 150 may suit you for performance, but not for price or size.

Size is not too important really. 150 GB would be fine. Even 80 would do me for
a long time I feel. I have about 100 GB on another UNIX box and I see no reason
this one should need any more.

Otherwise, the Seagate is as good as any; I have the IDE version in my external
backup setup.


Thanks - based on what I'd found out before, the price and what you said, I
decided to order one yesterday.

I might actually put the operating system on a small SCSI disk for reliability
more than anything else. The machine will run 24/7 and I get the feeling SATA
drives are not as reliable as SCSI especially for continuous use.


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