It also depends on what your server is going to do. Advantages for SCSCI are not primarily its transfer rate. The advantages of SCSCI are the low seek times, in combination with NCQ. NCQ is a hardware based technology integrated into SCSCI allowing the drive to determine what is the most efficient path too follow while retrieving data.
Another advantage is the high MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) of a SCSI disk. They have been designed to run 24x7, a IDE disk is not and has a much lower MTBF. If you want a solution in between I would suggest looking at the Western Digital Raptor. It is a SATA disk, with a high MTBF allowing it to run 24x7. It has 10k rpm, allowing low seek times, and the quality /price is very good. I would personally look at quality/price. If you need more performance, you can easily enhance the stripeset with an extra disk. Micha Schopman Project Manager Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 AL Amersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort 39081679, Rabo 39.48.05.380 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Modern Media, Making You Interact Smarter. Onze oplossingen verbeteren de interactie met uw doelgroep. Wilt u meer omzet, lagere kosten of een beter service niveau? Voor meer informatie zie www.modernmedia.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- -----Original Message----- From: Dave Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 14 april 2005 5:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What hard drive would you buy? IIRC, SCSI is also a lot less of a load on CPU, which might be a consideration depending what you're running on your server ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:13 PM Subject: Re: What hard drive would you buy? >I have a 1/2 TB RAID that serves up roughly 400k-size images -- aout > 200k of them and counting -- to about 50 users (200dpi color-scanned > document files, multipage pdf's, megapixel digital pics, phone voice > recordings). Straight IDE and its a Raid 1, so its a worst-case > performer. It works, but when a bunch of people hit it at once the > difference in performance is quite noticeable. And if I'm running a > backup during the day the thing really takes a dump. > > I have a 100gb scsi Raid 1 also. Ultra 3 double-wide-with-a-caboose I > think. Sometimes it seems like the whole shop can hit it and you > never notice. Danged expensive, though! > > If you're going to slam it from multiple places at once, go SCSI. > Even a lower RPM SCSI would be a good choice up against IDE technology > of any, uh... stripe, I would think. > > -- > --mattRobertson-- > Janitor, MSB Web Systems > mysecretbase.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202737 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
