10000 rpm or sata II?

[aj327]

What's faster, a drive like the 74 gb raptor with 10,000 rpms but only SATA I at 150 mb/s or a drive that's SATA II running at 7200rpms but at a 300 mb/s transfer speed?

 

[TheChef]

It looks as if the SATA-II HDs will be faster based on an AnandTech test.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454&p=6

All of the SATA-II drives were on top, above the WD Raptor.

 

[aj327]

That's great considering that I can get a 250 gb WD HD that's SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) for 119.99:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701

Whereas I'd only get a paltry 74 gb for the raptor that's not as fast and costs 181.00:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144160

 

[Doom_Machine]

i have raid 0 raptors, dunno bout sata2 but 2 raptors are pretty darn quick

 

[Lax]

Pretty sure they were covered in the HDD 101. Might also be in the RAID 101.

 

[Geoff]

they may have faster transfer speeds, but the 10K RPM has much faster access times.

 

[Ku-sama]

how about a cheeta drive? 15k rpm?? lol

 

[Praetor]

they may have faster transfer speeds, but the 10K RPM has much faster access times.

Goodness man do you realize what you're typing??? (i.e., this is not the first time).

how about a cheeta drive? 15k rpm?? lol

Yes SCSI is beautiful .. a bit of a pain to setup but wonderful when you finally do get it running

 

[Ku-sama]

yeah, i wouldent mind one of thoes in a 120gb size