Re: [CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-21 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:23:49PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more storage. I know a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but for present and future technology planning, should I look for a rack of SATA, SCSI, or fibre

[CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more storage. I know a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but for present and future technology planning, should I look for a rack of SATA, SCSI, or fibre channel drives?Maybe I'm dating myself with fibre channel, and

Re: [CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Petrakis
SAS all the way. Think of it as fibre channel, that you can afford. You can also mix SATA and SAS disks so really the biggest difference between SATA II and a SAS is the cost of the host bus adapter (HBA). I don't have personal experience with external storage for SAS (expanders) though I