PeterStoba
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Seagate have announced the Barracuda XT, which is the first SATA 6GB/s drive on the market.
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Seagate Announce The 2TB Barracuda XT
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Rastalovich
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What's that ? About 9p a gig ? (I am tired, so maybe brainfarting)
As opposed to 150p->250p a gig for SSD ? (and a smaller capacity)
I would be very interested in a comparison of a regular SA2 drive on the 6gbps controller versus one of these.
Atm I can recall speeds of 65/75/85m a second on average cheapness drives (possibly with 16/32m cache WD), 20-45 over the gigabit network, 10-15 over fast network, and I tend to think that just being plugged into a 6gps controller would boost that.
So I wonder if it's sales talk or actual improvement.
It could be ofc, that currently 32mb cache for a SA2 drive is about as "high as u need to go" - 64mb cache offering not much improvement - whereas 64mb cache on a 6gbps controller is another story. So they simply did that.
As opposed to 150p->250p a gig for SSD ? (and a smaller capacity)
I would be very interested in a comparison of a regular SA2 drive on the 6gbps controller versus one of these.
Atm I can recall speeds of 65/75/85m a second on average cheapness drives (possibly with 16/32m cache WD), 20-45 over the gigabit network, 10-15 over fast network, and I tend to think that just being plugged into a 6gps controller would boost that.
So I wonder if it's sales talk or actual improvement.
It could be ofc, that currently 32mb cache for a SA2 drive is about as "high as u need to go" - 64mb cache offering not much improvement - whereas 64mb cache on a 6gbps controller is another story. So they simply did that.
