I guess there are a few questions I would ask before I answered. 

1) What is your budget?
2) How many users?
3) What OS/Platform are you going to host this on?
4) What are your uptime requirements?
5) What time frame are you looking at?

Garl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [eug-lug]SCSI vs. ATA vs. IDE raid for >1 TB storage array
> 
> 
> We have an argument going here in the office regarding
> how to spec a storage array for a high volume, low-latency production 
> server
> that would need to hold and serve approximately 1-3 TB of maildirs
> 
> (lots of small files being sought by people who get cranky when they 
> are noticeably slow
> in arriving)
> 
> the basic argument is about ata-raid vs. scsi
> 
> It looks like there are a __lot__ of people trying to sell ata-raid 
> right now,
> the question is would that work for our application
> 
> Figured I would ask the knowledgeable and opinionated ( I'll let you 
> know when I find the list of knowledgable people ;)_
> 
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