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Originally Posted by sharris View Post
If the Seagate 3-Terabyte HDD can gives me one-full-Terabyte in the WARP-speed-zone, I'll buy a dozen of them today.
That's the case with some of the newer drives coming out...large capacity SATA drives can many times out-perform 15k SAS drives ****in sequential read tests**** at the beginning of the drive. As jggimi pointed out, all bets are off for random access patterns (where 15k SAS drives shine brilliantly...for the most part). (In other words, using the first 1 TB of a 3 TB sata drive for an ftp server that hosts very large files, like dvd images or such, would be good...using the same for an operating system installation would be a waste of time, since much of that will be randomly accessed data).

It's not uncommon for a drive capable of 125+ MB/sec sequential to only be able to push 0.5 MB/sec for heavily random read/write.
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