> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Whadda ya do with a failing drive? > > I just attended a packed meeting about database I/O, and the guy > mentioned > that SATA RAID is notorious for not meeting spec and other problems. > He > recommended sticking with SCSI, for what it's worth. > > I'll never use them again.
I've never seen any published information about that... but I've meat plenty of SCSI zealots. ;^) In my experience data error rates are definitely less with SCSI - but data errors with IDE and SATA are far from common. Still, in high-availability circumstances I'd go SCSI. However hardware reliability (and that's what we're talking about here) is essentially the same - same platters, heads, spindles, drive configurations, etc are used in all drives. But it doesn't really matter. The simple fact is that just aren't reasonably priced SCSI appliances for home use. I'm doing media serving and file sharing - lots of SATA options, few to no SCSI options (unless you want to spend triple) and then they don't have the capacity. SCSI has remained an over-priced niche option where all other options have dropped dramatically is price and availability. Looking at a nerd-core site like Newegg and you can't even get a SCSI disk over 300GB (and the one 300 GB model is $700). Even if that drive lasted forever it's not big enough and costs too much. I can pick up a 400 GB SATA disk for $100. Sure I may have to replace one every three or four years... but that's exactly why I store everything on RAID appliances to begin with. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251493 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
