Why not ALL Clevo/Sager Resellers...200GB 7200rpm SATA-300?

Here I am ready to order a system with the SLI 8800M GTX and notice that Sager and XOTIC and others do not offer the 200GB 7200 SATA-300 hard drive in the configuration. You would think they would. This one is the ultra fast HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 that Dell , Prostar and PC Microworks and others too are using these.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10007106

 

I do not know how many times we have gone over this.

It does not matter if its SATA I or II.... notebook drives have yet to even fully utilize the old ATA-100MB/s.... let alone SATAI's 150MB/s and SATA II 300MB/s.

The 7200 rpm is the main bottleneck for HDDs (for notebooks and desktops).

Only desktop SCSI or WD Raptor drives with 10,000rpm+ have a chance to take advantage of the 100MB/s+ transfer rates.

FYI:
SATA I = SATA/150 (mega bytes/sec) = 1.5Gb/s (giga bits/sec)
SATA II = SATA/300 (mega bytes/sec) = 3.0Gb/s (giga bits/sec)

 

I understand that. What about the faster seek times of this drive as well as the 16MB buffer? This can only help.

 

8-16mb buffer is not significant really. Read up on the differences... its the RPMs that makes the most significant of differences.

 

Oh... i didnt know that... thx... maybe ill change my config at eurocom

 

Tests have shown the SATA300 and SATA150 7k200's to be identical in performance. I have 3 of them in my system. They both have 16MB buffers btw, both the HTS722020K9A300 1.5GB/s and the HTS722020K9SA00 3.0GB/s interfaces.

There is no way even in RAID0 that your going to get 1.5GB/s xfer rate...just not possible.

So the only difference is....none really. The D901C does have a SATA 300 capability but your probably not going to see a notebook HDD that can take full advantage of it until after the notebook has long since passed into obsolence.

 

now I am not sure if this is really a laptop hard drive.

but here you go.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/savvio/savvio_10k.2/

for sale here

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3202697&CatId=1277

 

Those 2.5" 10k rpm drives are for slimline servers... using SCSI usually.

 

Those that he posted are SATA300, but I do wonder how hot they get....

 

Umm.... no they are not SATA (Serial ATA).

those are SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).

Geez, didnt you notice the section these drives are placed under?!?

Products & Services > Server & Enterprise Storage > Savvio® Hard Drives > Savvio® 10K.2

Sorry, no wishful thinking, but no 10k rpm drives for notebooks... (some might say "yet"... but heat will be the issue)

 

Alright may be kind of funny but couldn't you use this to change the SAS signal to SATA then mount 3 of them in a D901C?

Spacing constraints would be a problem, that backplane adapter probably would not have enough room.

I still agree they would probably smoke a laptop.

 

Toshiba and Seagate have similar drives. The Seagates have 5 yrs warrenty, and there is a 200GB model with a gravity sensor. If you drop the notebook, the disk will notice and park the heads to prevent a head crash.