Streaming Read Performance per Watt
Seagate’s performance per watt ratio in our streaming read efficiency test was okay, but this is only the case thanks to the drive’s high throughput. In fact, power consumption seems to be higher than with many of the other drives.
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Why would you go anything other than a fast 80GB drive for system anyway? System drives get fragmented and messed up faster than storage drives and I really wouldn't want to defrag a 1.5TB drive every 2 months.
Ever heard of the term Disk Partitioning LePhuronn ? easy fix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
Funny how adding a Wikipedia link suddenly makes a comment patronising.
I am fully aware, thank you, of disk partitioning. It's fine for basic setups where you want to strip off a portion of your disk for storage, but I use multiple disks at the same time and be buggered if I'm going to hamper disk and system performance trying to get my disk's head to be in multiple places at the same time.
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One reason (for the average user) would be that multiple disks equals more power drain, more chance of failure and increased complexity. System builders are always going to choose single disk options for all but the enthusiast market for exactly these reasons.
Horses for courses.. as ever!
Anybody who is an enthusiast, like the readers of Toms, will have multiple drives to increase performance. SSDs make for good system drives as the access time and throughput really speeds up Windows.
Buy Adaptec 3805 SATA Raid card with battery backup. Put out a LUNs as you need them, 32GB for sys etc. The 256MB Cache will take care of your "heads" going everywhere...
1.5tb is not enuff.. and I dont even have mega fast BB or Hi-def TV.. its all std res video Terabytes of the bleedin stuff.. coming out me ears!
Second that I'm churning out on average about 4Gb of pictures and videos every month from my N95