Price Guides, March 2005: Storage
by Kristopher Kubicki on March 7, 2005 7:30 PM EST- Posted in
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SCSI Drives
Over the last couple of weeks, we spent significant amount of time working with our Price Engine bot to pick up the newest and most competitive SCSI hardware. Unlike the SATA and PATA hard drives, those who plan on buying high end SCSI hard drives probably are not nearly as worried about the cost per gigabyte. Seagate’s 15K.4 drives also started showing up on the market about the same time as their Barracuda 7200.8 ATA drives, and if you can stomach the $1200 price tag for the 146GB version [RTPE: ST3146854LC] and high pitched whine, nothing comes close to performance.Fujitsu and Maxtor have some 15,000 RPM drives targeted at the 15K.4 series, but they haven’t quite shown up into retail space yet. From shows like IDF, we continue to hear more and more about the “magnetic bottleneck” on various high performance servers and workstations, and without a doubt, manufacturers are starting to respond with some very high end solutions to these problems. Hopefully, we are expecting to hear about some very neat stuff this summer.
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Live - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
I second Semo. Now that firewire 800 is coming strong external looks even more tempting.semo - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
Kristopher, could you include external storage solutions in your brilliant price guides. there have been some really interesting options lately like the wd passport and lacie 300693... both are host powered mobile hdds but i don't know which one is better.MadAd - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
#8 No not really. The important thing is whether all drives are measured the same way. Its just a comparison.Auzner - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
Wouldn't it make more sense to calculate $/GB by [$/(.93*GB)]? Because a 250gb isn't really a 250gb because of the 1000^3/1024^3 stuff.KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
MrEMan: The drives are listed as ATA100 - because quite frankly ATA133 is ATA100. ATA133 isn't *really* a spec. But I digress :-Pdev0lution: The graph generator is actually writing Feb01 - as in February first. I'll see if I can't tweak it in the future.
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dev0lution - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
Price graph's listing 2001 as the year in the dates?MrEMan - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
I notice that quite a few of the Maxtor PATA drives are listed as ATA 100, when in fact Maxtor is the only major manufacturer producing ATA 133 drives, which makes since they created the spec.MadAd - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
I noticed the price of the 250Gb 7200.8s drop in the UK too, I just picked up 4 for £346 delivered - STR benches upto 90MB/s on a TX4000 in raid 10- its like having a raptor with half a TB of space :)segagenesis - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
Riplock = most of the modern drives will only let you read a movie at 2x on purpose to discourage ripping. There are firmware mods if you dont care about warranty to remove this (and enable RPC-1 if you have movies from other regions, like I do). On the ND-2500 I can get 12x rip at the end of the disc (or layer break) rather than maybe 3.6x.dragonballgtz - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link
OK, what is riplock? :confused;