Not shabby for a single drive but...

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I wish the small file writes were a little better. I played around more trying to make changes to the scsi mode pages.

These drives are just hell on wheels on the reads. Look at the first few lines of the ATTO. Man if you had an app that read little files or records scattered over a disk this one would just fly.

The cluster size was 16k and this was ntfs with last access time turned on and all the other stuff left on that most people turn off for ntfs performance left on.

Everyone is so frantic about the Raptors but... This is a 36gb drive thats faster then a raptor and I buy them for 60 to 80 bucks.

Tex

Comments

  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Which one is it? Raptor 36gbs are still priced @ ~$120 for a few months now.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    Atlas 10k IV. u320, 8mb cache. 4.5ms 10,000 rpm dead quiet and almost kissed 75,000 on ATTO on Win XP.

    Best 65 to 70 buck drive in the world.

    Tex
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Maxtor, right?

    Tex, have you tried them out in any raid array? If I do decide to purchase those (instead of the Raptors) I'll most likely put them in an array.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited March 2004
    Tex? Raid drives together? (fiendish laugh....) Now what would ever make you think that I might put these drives into a raid array for God Sakes.

    Yes of course I've had them raided. I only have like 3 at the moment as I sold four to a guy last month.

    This one had four of the Atlas and a pair of slower IBM's for example. Depening on what your pci type is the adapter choice is probbaly more critical then the drives.

    The sandra you will notice bypassed the windows cache and still hit a 2ms average acess.

    Tex
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    Compelling. I'm running out of drivebays, so I'll check out the other size offerings as well. As always, you're a wealth of information, Tex. :)
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