Seagate came out with the new 180 Gig SCSI drive. So, how many are going to get it? :)

You can see the specs here. http://www.digit-life.com/articles/barracuda180/index.html

MSRP $2170?

Not me. Personally I'd prefer to get an Escalade 6400 and run four 80GB ATA drives in RAID 10 mode for half the price (and better performance) -- or get an Escalade 6800 and 8 drives and have double the performance and double the capacity for the same price.

I suppose the Seagate has the advantage of taking very little space, but is 1U of rackspace really worth over $1000?

Check out the Cheetah X15 instead.. That's what I call a drive.. I have the older 10,000RPM Cheetah myself.

Originally posted by cperciva
I'd prefer to get an Escalade 6400 and run four 80GB ATA drives in RAID 10 mode for half the price (and better performance
Better performance hum ..... too bad it would crash after editing video for 15 minutes

unfortunately themm *******s at segate know there is a market for it .. suckers like me that need the space, but cannot use IDE (IDE in video world is a joke anyway)

I'd rather use a raid array....

Rair is nice, but for real time video editing still works best on a SCSI raid solution.

Ata is catching up though in speed when you combine it with RAID. Its still not as good as SCSI, but for the budget, its nice.