Originally posted by: jose
Originally posted by: bwatson283
The new SATA drives like 120gb and up are alot cheaper and last longer. The shelf life of a SCSI is half the time as a SATA! SATA comes in 10k rpm already, i think 15k rpm are out also. all in all, SATA is 10 times better.
This is totally, stupid....
I have 18yr old scsi drives still running fine. We just had to pull them be cause of size.. ie. 2gig Barracuda's..
In the real world, scsi is king for performance..
Now I'm not saying there is no room for sata.
We use 15k scsi for application servers and 7200rpm sata's for mass storage.. all on LSI scsi/sata hardware controllers.
BTW, I have different types in my personel workstation.
2 - 15K scsi drives for OS & applications.
1 - 10k4 scsi drive for backups
and 1 - 10k 150g raptor for work/scratch/temp type work.
There is a noticable difference in 15k & 10k access times.
2 of my systems use 15k drives while my other 2 systems use 10k drives.
When I work on my customers 7200rpm drive systems it takes what seems forever to get things done.. they are ok but you can feel the difference in system responsiveness..
Regards,
Jose