Mohan, Ross wrote: > The only part I am pretty sure about is that real-world experience shows SCSI > is better for a mixed I/O environment. Not sure why, exactly, but the > command queueing obviously helps, and I am not sure what else does. > > || TCQ is the secret sauce, no doubt. I think NCQ (the SATA version of per > se drive request reordering) > should go a looong way (but not all the way) toward making SATA > 'enterprise acceptable'. Multiple > initiators (e.g. more than one host being able to talk to a drive) is a > biggie, too. AFAIK only SCSI > drives/controllers do that for now.
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