OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On May 25, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I have many of the same questions.  SATA is plenty fast for home  
> systems and modern drives are smoking stuff that was enterprise  
> class just a few years ago.  'twas ever thus.
>
> Cables are a nightmare IMHO.  This was by far the reason I've been  
> a big fan of SCSI for a long time.  You can make a pretty effective  
> and tidy Raid system by custom making a short length daisy chain  
> scsi cable. I have not explored this recently but used to do this ~5 
> + years ago for non-raid applications.  We used to run into device  
> compatibility problems on the SCSI bus though so same drive mfg  
> might be a good idea.  Perhaps things have improved.


I'd rather run 5 SATA cables then one SCSI cable (say 68pin) with  
multiple heads...   The darn SCSI cables are so thick, comparatively,  
that running them in your case is a lot harder :-)


Chad

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