I see all of this hardware improving dramtically, video cards, mainbords, processors, memory..but when are the harddrives gonna catch up? I have noticed that the harddrive is becoming a big bottlenecking issue and just want to see if anyone knows about some next gen harddrives to come out within the next few years.
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Next Gen HDD's
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Storage I/O and the Laws of Physics
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and then there are Solid State Disks (SSD) but they are still not affordable for the end user
Perpendicular Recording
and then there are Solid State Disks (SSD) but they are still not affordable for the end user
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There's SAS hard drives sometime down the line, or Serial Attached SCSI as it's called. I think Maxtor achieved 3.5 Gbps (gigabits) sustained transfer in a demo run of the SAS drives. Of course, I'm pretty sure that those would cost an arm and a leg.
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with how many drives attached to the HBA?
SAS drives and controllers should be available near the end of this year.
I've seen several SAS drives and haven't seen one sustain over 100MB/s yet. I think it's doubtful they achieved 3.5Gb/s sustained since the interface itself only supports 3.0Gb/s.
I did get excited during my testing with one of our drives when I saw it consistently sustaining 150MB/s... Then I noticed that this was a solid state prototype drive meant to only test the SAS interface and had only about 512MB of storage... Talk about a big letdown when I discovered that!
SAS drives are expected to not cost significantly more than a similar capacity and rotational speed U320 SCSI drive.