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3Gb/sec or 5Gb/sec is neither here or there. The HDD can read data at best as fast as 1Gb/sec. So the speed of the channel is really irrelevant.
To me this whole thread hijack is irrelevant. In a 3 drive 2 controller scenario, the OS physical disk is running the OS and supposedly the disk intensive program. The data is processed across the other 2 drives using the other controller(the SIIG card.) In your 2 drive one controller setup one drive is shouldering the OS with swap, the program, and the data source, the other drive is the data destination. All the disk i/o is over one controller.
Don't think it's as efficient.
how is it that your link ig is cheaper than mine? the stats look the same
my link
Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
What???
Your link is to a $250 Western Digital 1 TB drive.
My link was to a $150 Samsung 1 TB drive.
They are different drives with similar performance and identical capacity.
On the very day that I bought my Samsung for $50 (June 19, 2011), the Western Digital Caviar Black was priced at $85. They have both tripled since that date.
Samsungs have always been cheaper.
Here are the benchmarks of each drive. Samsung on the left; WD on the right.
I would think with holidays coming up they'd drop prices to encourage consumer spending
There will be no price dropping for the next 6 months - just the opposite. But I would not buy a 1TB drive for more than $70.
Keep looking here ( http://www.deals2buy.com/categories/...-devices/deals ). Sometimes they have good deals. But right now there is nothing.
@ignatzatsonic even with WD Caviar Black same capacity when the 64 MB cache 6 Gb/s drives came out I notice they didn't discount the 32 MB cache models. I guess they figure they can unload them. It was kind of comical because when the 64 MB cache models were introduced some of them were actually priced lower than the equivalent 32 MB cache models. Weird! What the market will bear as they say. :)
Yeah, all I can figure is WD has been able to command a bit of a premium price for the Black series generally due to the good publicity and good performance they have had for the last 3 years or so.
Likewise, I think Samsungs are priced cheaper because that brand is more known for things other than hard drives and the retailers have to discount them to drive sales.
I've never had a problem with either, but have lately drifted toward Samsung due to the price differential.
I always wonder whether the different makes do get their drives from the same sweatshops in Thailand and they only put their label on to be different.
I have seen that even in large systems. E.g. Siemens purchased their drives from IBM. They even arrived in the customer's office as IBM and the installing engineer just peeled the IBM label off and pasted the Siemns label on - saw that with my own eyes.