I was pointing out an obvious error in the price guide, not commenting on your high performance SATA rant. And kogase is right, everyone else has a lucrative SCSI market to protect. WD needs a more dense solution tough, 74GB is getting tight in an age of HomePVR's and HD Video.
The Samsung drive exists in 2 versions one with a very good motor with low noise and heat as a result. But lately the have started to use a different and louder motor on at least some of there drives. They are named the same so no way telling the differences by the name of the drive you have to check the actual printing on the drive.
No mention of the fact that SATA drives can limit your OC. That would be my main reason to stay with PATA. I wouldn't mind seeing this phenomenon investigated in an article...
I think it has something to do with the fact that those companies have high performance SCSI lines, and don't want to throw away their investment in that field with a similar performing SATA drive.
Very good article. It seems nobody is really trying to compete with the Raptor drives. Maxtor tried with 16mb cache, but what we really need is more 10k drives. I figured we would be seeing other drives like the raptors within months after they were released. Why aren't seagate, maxtor, samsung going with 10k drives? Are they just giving the high end market to WD?
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bofkentucky - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
I was pointing out an obvious error in the price guide, not commenting on your high performance SATA rant. And kogase is right, everyone else has a lucrative SCSI market to protect. WD needs a more dense solution tough, 74GB is getting tight in an age of HomePVR's and HD Video.Gnoad - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
and that would be a scsi drive, which doesn't interest the normal consumer too much. I was talking about sata drives.bofkentucky - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
Seagate Ultra320 146GB 10000RPM 8MB for 159.99I don't think so
Live - Sunday, November 7, 2004 - link
The Samsung drive exists in 2 versions one with a very good motor with low noise and heat as a result. But lately the have started to use a different and louder motor on at least some of there drives. They are named the same so no way telling the differences by the name of the drive you have to check the actual printing on the drive.mongoosesRawesome - Sunday, November 7, 2004 - link
No mention of the fact that SATA drives can limit your OC. That would be my main reason to stay with PATA. I wouldn't mind seeing this phenomenon investigated in an article...drifter106 - Sunday, November 7, 2004 - link
kogase - Saturday, November 6, 2004 - link
I think it has something to do with the fact that those companies have high performance SCSI lines, and don't want to throw away their investment in that field with a similar performing SATA drive.Gnoad - Saturday, November 6, 2004 - link
Very good article. It seems nobody is really trying to compete with the Raptor drives. Maxtor tried with 16mb cache, but what we really need is more 10k drives. I figured we would be seeing other drives like the raptors within months after they were released. Why aren't seagate, maxtor, samsung going with 10k drives? Are they just giving the high end market to WD?