devilgoob said:Yes, but SATA hdd's? The seek time and server capabilities arent that great on them, just because mb/s is high, doesnt mean that server performance (lots of read and write cycles) with be good too. My old 10k 9.1gb atlas III beats out my maxtor wd2500ks, and the WD2500 has tons of reviews on newegg saying its fast. 15k=seektime. But if you were to use SATA, I would say use these: http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/bi...star/p7k500/HGST_Deskstar_P7K500_DS_FINAL.pdf
The 500gig serial ata's w/2 gen perpendicular recording. Their previous 500gb models bench @ 12mb/s windows xp startup, and are fluent through HUGE queue depths.
So can we donate money for bandwidth or money for HDD's or a better pic server?
It's not always a good idea to spend more money.
With the price of a 15k Scsi hard disk i can buy 6 SATA harddisk and place them in raid 05 (2 arrays of 3 HD in raid 5+the arrays itselfs in raid 0), wich are way faster, safer and more reliable tha a single 15k HD.
15k are for people who don't have space, or need REALLY HIGH performance. Way higher than the ones from a server like icmag.
Also, if ICMAG is running on a 64 bit processor, with the same money you can buy GIGS of ram or place cache on the raid controller, and using a virtual disk you can keep permanently the images on ram. Wich is WAY FASTER than a 15k HD.