Elemental-Gear Episode 3

Elemental-Gear episode 3 covers storage and storage sub-systems; we talk about different hard drive interfaces including (IDE, SATA, SCSI), disk controllers, RAID arrays, applications of RAID arrays, and related utilities.

If you are curious about dual core processor comparisons between the two big CPU manufactures check out this article entitled AMD’s Dual Core Athlon 64 X2 Strikes Hard.

We described the following components during episode 3:

• Western Digital Raptor hard drives
• Maxtor hard drives
• Seagate hard drives
• Hitachi hard drives
• Promise Fasttrak S150 SX4-M PCI SATA Controller Card
• LSI Logic LSI00005 PCI-X SATA Controller Card
  
• Adaptec Disk Controller Cards
• 3ware Disk Controller Cards
• HighPoint Disk Controller Cards
• SUPERMICRO Hard Drive Enclosures
• SpaceMonger

Direct Link to Episode 3