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Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the ask-your-parents-about-it dept.

Sivar writes "StorageReview got their hands on a Maxtor Atlas 10K V, the first SCSI hard drive in more than two years to double capacity. Considering how quickly storage was improving just a few years ago, and other news like Intel's cancellation of the 4GHz Pentium IV despite AMD's lead you have to wonder if the traditional predictions of the end of Moore's Observation are actually beginning to come true."

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  1. SCSI is targeted to spindle fetishists.... by otis+wildflower · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... I can guarantee you most DB guys I know would shit their pants in joy if they could get 15k RPM 9GB drives in bulk. I know of DBAs that buy 18g drives and only use half of them. In theory you only use the inner cylinders, but internal geometry these days is largely divorced from logical geometry.. DBAs who deal with random small writes want lots and lots of spindles striping using lots and lots of hardware RAID adapters.

    The super exciting thing about the 2.5" drives IMHO for SCSI is the possibility of boosting rotational speed thanks to reduced media weight. If you could get 1" 20-40kRPM 9GB SCSI or SAS drives and join together 100 of them that would be unbelievable.