[Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 73 GB Hard Drive] -
Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 73 GB Hard Drive
Discuss Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 73 GB Hard Drive
Posted by: Harper
[IMG]http://www.seagate.com/images/products/prodshots/cheetah_lg.gif[/IMG]
I am currently got a new Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 Hard Drive that I have no use for.
[B]Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 Hard Drive[/B]
Model Number:[URL=http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,548,00.html]ST373453LW[/URL]
Capacity:73 GB
Speed:15K rpm
Seek time:3.6 ms avg
Interface:Ultra320 SCSI
Manufacturer Warranty : 5 years warranty directly with Seagate
Drive Serial Number : 4HW00PH7 (So you can check on warranty status with this drive, and that it's not reported stolen.)
Selling at Aust [COLOR=darkred][SIZE=4]$800 inc-GST [/SIZE][/COLOR] (Neg)
Payment method include Cash, DD, Pay Pal, Cheque, Postal Money
Funds must be cleared first before delivery.
Can ship anywhere, but at extra cost.
You can also arrange pick up, but funds much be cleared first.
PM me if interested.
Posted by: mrzeeedler
i Live in the US, can u translate to american dollars? and will it work here or is it differnt in neway? Is this brand new still in box?
Posted by: Harper
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mrzeeedler [/i]
[B]i Live in the US, can u translate to american dollars? [/B][/QUOTE]
With the nature of econimics and foreign exchange rate, I suggest you look [URL=http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic]here[/URL] for a "translation" on price.
As of the time I am posting this message, it's about US$600
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mrzeeedler [/i]
[B]and will it work here or is it differnt in neway?[/B][/QUOTE]
Provided that you have an Ultra320 SCSI connection, yes.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mrzeeedler [/i]
[B]Is this brand new still in box? [/B][/QUOTE]
It's brand new, in the box, has not been used. You can check on the Seagate website with it's serial number.
Posted by: mrzeeedler
okay thank you, thats a little more then im looking to spend however because i can get a brand new one over here for that amount.
Posted by: XT
Bump for this guy!
Honerable man and he will deliver your package if you pay.
Also a great drive super fast works best in servers!
Up for Silesia(great person
Posted by: XT
Gotcha mike. Hey we have run into a few times this last month. Interesting lol
Posted by: guess123
why does a 73 gb harddrive cost 600US????
u can get like a 200gb one for less than that!!!
Posted by: jaun1477
this type of hdd can be found for 489 dlls
[url]http://tech-report.com/reviews/2003q4/cheetah-15k/index.x?pg=1[/url]
but i think it will lower the prioe in 2 or 3 months
Posted by: guess123
what does the speed of the hd affect??
what are the sata hd's?
Posted by: Harper
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by guess123 [/i]
[B]what does the speed of the hd affect??
what are the sata hd's? [/B][/QUOTE]
Speed of the hard drive is when it reading and righting data. Like having a faster drive does improve the speed of the following :-
* Retreaving information
* CD Burning from hard drive
* Authoring DVDs or CDs.
Like I just recently got a drive with a 8Mb Cache, and the speed is noticable. With that being said, I will be spend the extra few dollars just for the 8 mb cache on a drive.
The main important thing with a SCSI hard drive over a sata is that can have then running and reading 24/7 for about 5 years.
Check out Seagate [URL=http://www.storageanswers.com/]Storage Application Model[/URL] some time.
It's a really useful sales tool for me when I need to convince some one that they will be better off not cutting corners when they are dealing with a heavy duty server.
BTW, I am negoable with that hard drive, so if you want to make an offer, I am all ears. Just keep it reasonable.
Posted by: XT
[quote]why does a 73 gb harddrive cost 600US????
u can get like a 200gb one for less than that!!![/quote]
this is very simple 200gb drives only come in sata or ide drives.
This scsi drive is used for a server simply because of its fast seak times and amazing rpm. A normal sata might have 7200rpm and some expensive ones go up to 10,000rpm with a low seek time.
a 74gb 10,000 rpm sata raptor is arround 250-350 i believe. it has faster seek time and can acess info faster than a 7200rpm 200gb drive
Posted by: Harper
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by XT [/i]
[B]This scsi drive is used for a server simply because of its fast seak times and amazing rpm. A normal sata might have 7200rpm and some expensive ones go up to 10,000rpm with a low seek time. [/B][/QUOTE]
That, and the fact that they can with stand the punishment being left on, running, reading and writing data 24 / 7. The expected life of a SCSI hard drive is 3 to 5 years.
Sure, SATA and IDE are cheaper, but they will would be able to withstand the punishment that a high demand mission server requires.
At work we have 2x SCSI 36 Gb 10 000 RPM drive mirroring each other. This is holding all our mission critical data. Eg. MYOB, EMAIL, Server OS.
Meanwhile, we have a 1x 80 Gb SATA that is just being used to store price lists, drivers and virus definitions because it's not that high demand.
Posted by: guess123
i get it now...so if i just need the net n some games music w.e i dont really need one of the sata drives??
Posted by: Harper
Go SATA as SATA is going to be the future of drives.
Posted by: HoLoCroN
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Silesia [/i]
[B]Go SATA as SATA is going to be the future of drives. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yup, IDE will be around for a long time but SATA is clearly the next runner up.
Posted by: wansingct
Dependability wise, SCSI is NO BETTER than IDE. The REAL main advantage to SCSI is that your can chain devices, and therefore have more sotrage capacity in a single RAID volume. THAT is why SCSI is so big in business servers. The simple fact that you can chain (I forget off the top) 7 or 8 devices together and have your raid controller see all of them as a single logical drive. SCSI drives have faster seek and read times, but for the everyday user (outside of a corporate environment) you'll never get to the point of trully needing SCSI. The ATA drives are cheap enough and big enough so that all you need is a mobo raid controller with 4 ide controllers and you're solid. And as far as SATA goes, most of the drives out there (to the best of my knowledge, may have changed by now) aren't true SATA except for the Seagate. As of the last I heard, the others are using bridge chips between their ATA bus and their SATA bus........same drive, different connection.
Posted by: HardKore{Killa}
dam i wish i had the money to buy it i woold prob take the 6 hours trip to get there to just save the postal money but i dont have $800 i can buy it if your willing to sell it for $6.20 thats all i have right now
Posted by: Apokalipse
I'm thinking of getting a 36 gig SCSI drive in my next PC to store OS's and maybe program files, and then have a 120/160 gig SATA drive for misc file storage
the big drive for slower but bigger storage to save the SCSI drive's space and so I get better performance with only OS's and main program exe's to load
Posted by: tylertherobot
I have a 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB drive and a 160 GB 7200RPM 2mb drive in my new machine.
The servers I'll be building this summer will have dual 36GB 10,000 RPM SCSIs though, and running something other than Windows because they'll be used for web server and ftp server.
Honestly, these hard drives were made to compete with the speed of SCSI for the average user. However, most average users wouldn't spend 600.00 on a 73 GB drive.
Plus from what I understand the new 15k RPM drives are much quieter than SCSI :)