Drive Speed: SCSi vs. SATA

Digitalcaveman

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Guys,

I have (2) ST318451LC Seagate Cheetahs, 15,000RPM and (1) ST318233LWV Seagate Cheetah, 10,000RPM drive and in my current setup may be able to put in the extra drives in with my Raptors SATA drives.

I have 2 questions,

1. Would there be a speed difference noticeable in gaming? (Thats the real question)

2. Would it be better to just sell these drives on eBay and forget adding SCSi to this system at all?

Thanks for your input,

DC:cool:
 
I've always been under the impression that SCSI was faster than SATA.

Granted you're doing equal comparisons. ie: 15k scsi vs 15k sata

You never hear of servers coming with SATA drives.
 
SCSi is better for hosting on servers because of the access times. I've been reading some articles. The new STAT drives, like my new Raptor 150GB 10k is pretty fast.
The difference is comparing this drive to a Seagate Ultra 160 Cheetah at 15k rpm, is there going to be a noticeable difference in gaming?
 
As said SCSI is better for multiuser, Raptor for single

Plus with SCSI you run into a lot of noise and a lot of heat.
 
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