Quote Originally Posted by Mr_P View Post
Richard,
In response to your comments -

I use
Mac Pros - 2x 500G SATA raided (WD5000YS)
G5 - single SCSI (not raided) (Cheetah 10K.7 147GB ULTRA 320)

These configuration seem to work fine for the majority of the work encountered

re 'performs better' comment
this was based on Hughs testing results between various SCSI drives both 10K & 15K.
I agree - there are a lot of factors to be considered - of what was available in the price range and size, the recommendation after tests was the drive quoted.

Nevs Fujitsu MAX3147NP was not compared

It was not a comparrison between SSD and SATA
internal raiding of drives does not work better than single drive - and can work worse - as you know. internal raids not recommended - they do not improve performance.
there is a also a great deal of difference between the individual performance of single sata drives- they do not all work the same.

cheetah 10k7 scsi never recommended as scsi drive.


there are indeed many things to consider - the most important being - the type of content you are using, and what codec.
the performance of systems varies hugely depending on this.