| Marcin Dobrucki 2004-11-30, 5:45 pm |
| Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:
> Tim, not knowing exactly what your requirements are, I'll just repeat in the
> simplest terms what I said in a previous post, "When you factor in ease of
> deployment, reliability, longevity, and performance you quickly realize it
> pays for itself in short order." That said, depending on your requirements
> SATA might be better for you if you have minimal demands and expectations.
Sorry, a question from a lurker. How does the SCSI interface improve
reliability of the disks? We are replacing SCSI disks by the dozen.
The only thing that I can think of here is that someone is using
home-grade SATA drives in enterprise environment.
The only reason I don't see more SATA disks being deployed locally is
that they usually are running at 7200rpm and not 10000 or 15000 like the
new scsi stuff, and hence access times are longer. This carries some
performance penalty for our systems indeed. But ease of deployment is
hardly an issue as the disks are hot-plugable, disk hardware fails
regardless of interface type, and frankly.. scsi prices are ridiculous.
/Marcin
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