> Sorry, but you are comparing apples and oranges. > > Sure the SATA drives look good on paper, and sure they perform well in > applications without lot's of parrallel IO/s and seeks around the whole disk. > For a more useful comparison regarding fileservers or databaseservers look > into the performance database of storagereview.com: Thanks. > > http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html > > Select for example "IOMeter File Server - 16 I/O". The top drives are all 15k > SCSI or SAS, followed by 10K SCSI or SAS, followed by the raptors and than > the rest of the SATA drives. So I see. A 2.5" drive (higher density platters? probably all use the same density just smaller platters come to think of it...) running at the highest speed taking the crown. Current SATA versus older 15k RPM SCSI generation then :D > > Sure the SATA drives are still acceptable for a wide range of server > applications, especially since you can use lots and lots because of their > attractive price point. Yeah.