Seagate LP & XT drives

[chipsang]

I am making a professional system for Data recovery. My m.board supports newer SATA 6gb/s.
can guru's suggest rugged & reliable drive from seagate?
Enterprise products es.2 dont have sata 6gb interface.
Has anyone reviews seagate LP & XT drives. Are they recomended for such critical application?
ANy suggestion will help me

[drc]

You're not going to see any real benefit from 6gb sata with mechanical drives... they aren't even as fast as 3gb sata.

[chipsang]

You're not going to see any real benefit from 6gb sata with mechanical drives... they aren't even as fast as 3gb sata.

Oh I see .Thanks for feedback ,I will better prefer Seagate ES.2 drive having 32 MB buffer .

[Doomer]

the XT hybrid should be pretty fast for end user applications

[ppumkin]

What do you mean by professional system for data recovery?

[chipsang]

I am making a professional system for Data recovery. My m.board supports newer SATA 6gb/s.
can guru's suggest rugged & reliable drive from seagate?
Enterprise products es.2 dont have sata 6gb interface.
Has anyone reviews seagate LP & XT drives. Are they recomended for such critical application?
ANy suggestion will help me

Enterprise class reliability for 24X7 use , large buffer , reliable components , extended data checking mechanisam etc etc

[chipsang]

What do you mean by professional system for data recovery?

To add topping - a high bandwidth chipsets for fast data transfer , low latency ram modules
USB 3 support will make it ideal

[ppumkin]

god- i wonder what datacompass is running?

[chipsang]

My system can be ready is less than US$ 600 , Price of datacompass is US$3800
I hope your maths is clear.

[ppumkin]

Hey - thats a bargain mate!
So which software you going to use for firmware management, boot management and general communication with the hdd?

[chipsang]

this system is for logical recoveries only as ide support is not native now a days , you cant use these m.boards for dos.
I am looking forward to have high bandwidth machine for large data transfer.

[chipsang]

this system is for logical recoveries only as ide support is not native now a days , you cant use these m.boards for dos.
I am looking forward to have high bandwidth machine for large data transfer.

[ppumkin]

I am not sure what exactly you want to achieve but you should look ad SAS drives for your system drive. but you would need to change your configuration a bit

300GB Cheetah 15000RPM - I have 80GB 15k in my server- you see big difference in file operating times in any operating system. Or any similar drive. Put them into raid.

If you really want an impressive system you can find the new SSD hybrids that should breech your 3gigabit bandwidth and start using that extra space. These drives are not official yet and need special adaptors that work with normal hard drives.You need to search for that.

Remember one HDD cant achieve 3gigaBITS per second read or write. The 6gb/s interface will help if you are going to have allot of hard drives in the server-usually only beneficial with data farms.

Which motherboard are you going to use?

[chipsang]

I am not sure what exactly you want to achieve but you should look ad SAS drives for your system drive. but you would need to change your configuration a bit

300GB Cheetah 15000RPM - I have 80GB 15k in my server- you see big difference in file operating times in any operating system. Or any similar drive. Put them into raid.

If you really want an impressive system you can find the new SSD hybrids that should breech your 3gigabit bandwidth and start using that extra space. These drives are not official yet and need special adaptors that work with normal hard drives.You need to search for that.

Remember one HDD cant achieve 3gigaBITS per second read or write. The 6gb/s interface will help if you are going to have allot of hard drives in the server-usually only beneficial with data farms.
Which motherboard are you going to use?

Thank you ppumkin for right guidance