Yeah, we avoid IDE in all of our servers and my personal development machine here is
all SCSI. The only production box we have that is IDE is a NAS box that we mostly use
for backups.
Regards,
Howie
--- On Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:38 PM, Max Paperno scribed: ---
>
> I tried using IDE RAID on a disk-intensive server... once (it was a
> backup SQL Server). Let's just say it was a bad idea (anyone need
> some 40GB IDE disks? ;-) Even slower SCSI drives are better than
> fast IDE ones. IDE RAID is fine for many applications but if you're
> thrashing your drives there's no replacement for SCSI. And as
> people have mentioned, having anything over a couple of thousand
> files in one folder will kill disk performance so that's a bad combo
> with IDE.
>
> Just a thought.
> -Max
>
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