Affect HD performance has on 3dmark scores ?

[antipop]

Originally posted by Dissolved
well scsi doesnt cost much.

so about 400-500 for a good scsi os drive setup.

is it only me or 400$ is expensive for a hdd system?

[Dissolved]

hdd system? lol that sounds funny..

but 2-3 ide raid would cost about the same also.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Originally posted by Dissolved
hdd system? lol that sounds funny..

but 2-3 ide raid would cost about the same also.

3 drives would but not 2.

As for % cpu utilization I have about 4% using a 16K stripe. If I jump to 32K stripe, it would be under 2%....

[Dissolved]

not bad. but id rather pay more for scsi anyways. For me its better in every way but price.

Someday when i get a good enough pc and learn not to be lazy ill do More testig and see differences if any between the wd 360 sata 36gb 10k, and a seagate 15k.3 36gb.
ill probly have both soon. so maybe ill run some testing and see if theres a Real difference.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'd be interested to hear about the results.

[antipop]

Originally posted by Dissolved
hdd system? lol that sounds funny..

but 2-3 ide raid would cost about the same also.

I wanted to say hard drive but it's more than just a hard drive because there's also the card. I don't think you can beat ide in the price, you can find 120GB drive for around $120 and there's now 8Mb cache version

[Dissolved]

well you get what you pay for. thats bascially all i can say.

ide and sata are getting alot better but i just dont have the case space for a billion ide drives in raid. but a few scsi drives

[Ace-a-Rue]

Sounds like to me justification for scsi...

[Dissolved]

SCSI or IDE?

*speed or space?

*2-3 drives or 4-8 drives?

*3-5years or 1-3years?


Thats how i see it