[olug] SATA vs SCSI

[Will Langford]

On a related note...

A 500gb SATA drive is about $360 :)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148108

-Will


On 12/17/05, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ... while waiting for two nodes to sync ...
>
> ... looking at the storage review site, SATA is still getting it's ass
> kicked by SCSI.  So... if ya need the speed, SCSI / SAS is still the way to
> go.
>
> But, with NCQ and stuff, SATA is definately closing the gap with SCSI.
> The bus isn't going to be the problem, it'll be the hardware inside the
> drives (as usual...).
>
> Given a controller at around $50
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102042&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=16-102-042
>
>
> And four 160gb drives at $75 eachish...
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145091&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=22-145-091
>
>
> Gives ya close to half a terrabyte with a parity drive of RAID5... give or
> take proper engrish... for $350.
>
> -Will
>
>
>  On 12/17/05, Charles Bird <thebirdman at operamail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I went to dit today to see what they had laying around and pick up a
> > spindle of cd-r.
> > I asked the clerk guy if he knows of any hvd scsi controllers new/used
> > he laughed and said no, everyone is getting outta scsi and moving over to
> > sata these days. I gave him a weird look and thought to myself.....I havnt
> > seen one sata drive in the data center yet, may some lower end machines have
> > sata but i dont see hotswap sata drives in a rack....
> > He then told me about sata2 and said its supposed to do 300MB per
> > second, I said really loud "No Way man"
> > But i am not really informed about it so I asked him for more info, like
> > latency, total thoroput etc, compared to scsi. and he claims sata is going
> > to out perform scsi soon, i said I dont believe it, there no way.
> > Maybe perhaps but i didnt believe it and i dont really care until i see
> > more 10K rpm and 15K rpm sata drives.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Will Langford" < unfies at gmail.com>
> > To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: [olug] SATA vs SCSI
> > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:14:45 -0600
> >
> > >
> > > Given recent SATA / SCSI conversation...
> > >
> > > http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html
> > >
> > > SCSI still eats SATA drives, but.... it's interesting to see them
> > coming up
> > > in the world.
> > >
> > > -will
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