Its not that I shun it, I just don't find them to be as reliable as SCSI. That being said, I run SATA RAID1 in what I consider my main DC and also in my storage servers that I use for backup purposes but any servers hosting an important application I use SCSI.
I'm actually making a decision right now putting together specs for a report server for our soon to arrive practice management and EHR software. Its not mission critical so I wanted to go with SATA but the vendor says its IO intensive (SQL server) and to use SCSI but from what I gathered it seems SATA speeds are about the same. For the practice management server, I will be using SAS. James ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Blackstone To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:30 AM Subject: RE: Small server It almost seems like SATA would be fine for a single app. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small server curious, why do you shun SATA ? On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:14 AM, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: Kind of important software. I would make sure the server was hardware RAID1 with 2 hot swap SAS drives NOT SATA at a minimum just for the redundancy. No software RAID. Whats wrong with SCSI? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:08 AM Subject: RE: Small server Sorry. I guess I should have specified this is for Kronos Time Keeper Central. Server hardware requirements are very basic. It has to be capable of running Windows 2000. It's not a very resource-intensive software. It's got a small DB and has to be capable of allowing multiple people to access it over the network (via "client" software loaded on their machine) The machine that's currently running the time and attendance software is a P4 2.8Ghz with 2 Gig of RAM running Windows 2000. My main problem is that it's running off a single HDD, and a SCSI drive at that. Cut/paste from the system requirements document: 750 Mhz+ 1 Gigabyte NT4 , 2000 Server 2003 Server 1 Gigabyte Free disk space. As you can see it's very basic requirements. TKC has not been updated in a LONG time and probably won't be updated ever again. I spoke with a support engineer, and he said that he's seen it running on Windows XP, but that's not supported, as XP is not a "server" O/S, which is required for multiple clients accessing the machine at one time. Thanks... Hope this answers your questions WRT system requirements. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small server Once again you give us absolutely no app requirements. Therefore the answer is: maybe. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Small server I am looking at getting a small server running Windows Server 2003, so I can have my time and attendance running on a supported O/S. Looking at Dell's Premier site, the least expensive option only offers a Software RAID5, unless I'm mis-reading the options. Would you guys rather have a Hardware RAID0 / RAID1 or a software RAID5? Any other options I should be looking at for a small server? 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