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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. Thank you by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Large caches by BeerCat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The more serious response...

    It seems odd that no one has come out with a standard cache expansion kit.

    What about a cache expansion kit that is a small daughterboard that can take multiple RAM type designs (SIMM / DIMM / SO-DIMM etc), and which then plugs into the drive's cache socket. This would mean that all the old RAM that you had to remove to upgrade your machine could be put to good use. Even though it would not be as fast as the RAM in main use, it would still be around 1000 times faster than the HD itself. OK, so trying to integrate 30-pin SIMMs would probably be a bit silly (especially with a limit of something like 8Mb), but anything from about 168-pin would do.

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  3. Re:No way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    mazingly, its power dissipation is at around 40W
    And it has a bitchin' liquid cooling system. I've seen some groovy case mods, too.
  4. 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.