Latest SCSI Drive Reviewed

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."

Comments

Thank you

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

the traditional predictions of the end of Moore's Observation

Thank you for correctly not calling Moore's observation "Moore's law". It's refreshing once in a while.

Re:Large caches

[Gldm]

Yes, it would be great to add cache to SATA drives. Or wait, how about an onboard CPU to offload the processor? Oh and wait, let's add RAID5 xoring too! Oh and command queuing, elevator sort seek optimizations, and all the other nice SCSI stuff.

If only someone made a product like that which supported many drives and most major OSes including linux...

If only I could find such a thing under this rock where I've been living the last few years!

Re:No way

[kfg]

Clearly mother nature got it right for efficient computation.

At the cost of deterministic precision and data integrity.

When designing a computational device the ideal depends a good deal on just what it is you are trying to compute and there are always engineering tradeoffs.

KFG

Guessssss what?

[Ayanami Rei]

All operating systems do this anyway with your system RAM.

The memory on the drive is just there as a holding pen for pending reads and writes so that it can give the drive head a chance to get to where it needs to be, perhaps killing multiple birds with one stone.
At a certain capacity you start needing more cache because you'll be dealing with potentially more complex access patterns (more disparate regions to access data, larger transfer units per track)

It is not a substitute for a file-system/block cache.