On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:58:37PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 15:38, Nick Webb wrote:
If the internal hardware was the same, then so should the seek time. I heard someone on this thread (you?) say that they had two drives, one IDE and one SCSI, that had the same internals. I would like to know the model numbers for these (so I could look up the specs), I would be surprised (pleasely perhaps) if the seek times were the same.
I wasn't the one who said that I had one of each, but it's very common practice these days for the internal hardware to be the same. The chips and the interfaces are the most significant differences from mid-high-end SCSI and top-end ATA. I don't know why Seagate doesn't make 15kRPM ATA drives, but it's probably due to the fact that nobody wants to *live* with a 15kRPM disk on their desktop. Those who do want to live with it buy SCSI, anyway. :)
Yep, but then why aren't there 10,000 RPM IDE drives? Or are there . . . my 10,000 RPM SCSI drive isn't any louder than IDE drives I've had. I would like to agree with you, but I haven't seen any recent drives with anywhere similar specs on both IDE and SCSI. All recent SCSI drives are either 10K or 15K RPM (and have been for quite a while), for example, and you can't get that in IDE. Which brings it down to another 'fact': The newest (fastest) technology is deployed on SCSI. But, as you pointed out, that comes at a price. -- Nick Webb http://www.uidaho.edu/~nickw/