Re: Help choosing hardware
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:25 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0700, Jacob Bresciani wrote:
> > I'll counter the HP recommendation with Sun, their V20z (up to 2way) and
> > V40z (up to 4 way) line are very nice machines are very reasonable
> > prices, about 6K Canadian for 2 250 opteron's 2Gig of Ram and a pair of
> > 36G SCSI drives. Plus the dual GigE and Sun's wonderful ALOM (Advanced
> > Lights out Monitoring) support. All this and a 1U form factor too (at
> > least in the V20z, the V40z is 3 or 4U I think).
>
> People still buy scsi? Why? I can't find any good reason for scsi
> anymore (unless running 15 drives on a single port is really that
> important). I guess external connections I could see, but there are
> other ways to get access to external disk space too.
>
> SATA makes more sense to me pricewise and can even be hotplugged (on
> some controllers just like scsi).
>
> SAS looks really neat, but I suspect it may be way to expensive too.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
Cause it's hard to find a tier one vendor that sells SATA.
also it depends what your doing, SCSI is still faster in some
applications but SATA is closing that gap quickly. Digging into some
stats the WD Raptor 10K SATA drives look very tasty.
SATA vs SCSI - Single Drive vs Single Drive
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030501/index.html
SCSI vs SATA - RAID configurations and applications.
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/29
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