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Re: New LUGNET server hardware details
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:52:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller wrote:
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> > That summarizes it pretty well. SATA is something like five times cheaper
> > per byte, and that's not even counting that we'd need a more expensive
> > motherboard with a SCSI controller.
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> Not to mention the fact that current IDE drives are just as reliable as SCSI.
> SCSI is nice if you need maximum speed and can live with little storage space
> (SCSI above 74 GB is rare still, IDE goes to 250GB easily
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't saying I though that you should have gone the SCSI route
(I thought my anecdotes would have showed that!) more that I thought it was
interesting the move away from SCSI for custom built servers. A few years ago it
would have been pretty much the standard.
Tim
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| (...) Not to mention the fact that current IDE drives are just as reliable as SCSI. SCSI is nice if you need maximum speed and can live with little storage space (SCSI above 74 GB is rare still, IDE goes to 250GB easily But the generated heat and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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