Seagate X15-36lp vs. 2x 36xl

[Floppyman]

Hey all,

I'm planning on going SCSI for my next system and have mostly everything picked out but hdd. What would be better to get?

The new Seagate Cheetah 15,000rpm x15-36lp drive 18.4 gig with 8mb of cache, (benches at over 60mb's at the beginning of the drive)

OR

The Seagate Cheetah 10,000rpm 36xl 18.4 gig with 4mb's of cache (I will get two of these eventually, the cost of of 2 of these is close to that of the 15k drive). Benches at over 40mb's at the beginning of the drive)

What do you guys think? I kinda think 2x 18.4 gig 10k drives would be better, not only would they be quieter, but it's also more space. Plus I think I really don't run anything that would really take advantage of a 15k drive, that's that fast. Thanks for your opinions.

[Carl Price]

I have had seven Seagate failures this month. They have joined the list of drives I won't use along with WD and Quantum bigfoot.

Failures have not been SCSI tho. I believe that almost all manufacturers make SCSI equipment more robust than IDE.

[glc]

Carl: Go figure - the only SCSI drives we have NOT had issues with are Seagate and WD.........can't say the same about IBM, Quantum, and Fujitsu. The only IDE drives that have treated us well are IBM and Fujitsu.

[Toaster]

This is from the "what its worth department",
I am not a seagate fan. However, their SCSI stuff does seem to be better then thier IDE stuff. Still, i`m from the "old school" and have a warm fuzzy spot in my soul for Seagate full hight SCSI stuff.
Still, a 15k/RPM drive would tend to scare me to some degree as Seagate 10k drives run quite warm.
The key to long lived SCSI drives is cooling, cooling, cooling regardless of drive manufacture. Keep a SCSI drive cool and the world is right.
Seagate drives have a nasty little habit of developing "sticktion" after running near recommended temps. This is where the drive head/platters locally "stick" preventing the drive from spinning up.
Thier full hight stuff is bullet proof. I have 6 of their 23GB ultra-wide full hight drives running 24/7 for 3 years now. Tuff, fast and reasonably quiet.