Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) spake thusly:
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> Can someone provide a comparison of Ultra ATA 100 and SCSI?  Which is
> faster and/or more reliable?  

I think one is about as reliable as the other. SCSI is faster 
and more expensive. If you have spare cash, go for scsi. If not,
ide should do fine for a home/desktop system.
 
> Does RAID restrict the combination of disks I can have?  IIRC RAID 0
> is no redundancy, and RAID 1 is simply maintaining two copies on
> separate disks.  If so, then wouldn't both disks need to be the same
> size?

No, _partitions_ usually have to be the same size.

Dima
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