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SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server?
turboflux asks: "I'm currently in the process of replacing an aging file server with something more robust. Company-wide, there will be about 100 people who could be using this server, but I don't imagine there being more than 50 concurrent users. Right now, I'm torn between spending alot on SCSI hardware, much like our other servers, or spending less, but getting more space, with SATA II drives. Whatever I decide, the server will be setup with a RAID 1+0 array for the numerous benefits it offers. Does Slashdot have opinions or suggestions on performance, reliability, and stability?"
I've been looking at a mac xraid myself. in 3U (plus 1 more U for the server) it's got 14 hot swap bays each running ULTRA ATA 100 with a separate controller on every disk. redundant logic, hot swap power supplies, hot swpa disks, and hardware raid 0,1,3,5. dual fiber channel to the server.
even if you stuff it with apple disks the whole thing including a high performance dual gig dual processor xserve is about 15K$ for 7 terrabytes running at 7200 rpms. You can get it slightly cheaper if you populae it yourself and throw together your own server. but it hardly seems worth it since a major attraction is that you can also get a 3 year apple warantee on it from a reliable company.
So if your network is going to be distributed over ethernet then I can't see why this is not one of the best things going.
I'd like to hear why sata or scsi linux is a better solution.
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I was totally serious. what is wrong with my post?
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