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["Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>]

zman wrote:
> Comparable ages... that's the thing that is weird, a year ago I was all
> about using only SCSI in servers. This year it looks like the SCSI
> quality and SATA have gotten very close.

Wow.  Most of the people I've heard talk about this are still leary of the
SATA products.

> I think because we have about 3
> times as many SCSI drives I'd call it even. Now for the big raids I'm
> not quite sold yet but I have been researching the Xraid quite a bit and
> can't touch the price point with a name brand SCSI raid... I think we'll
> be getting one pretty soon...

I've read the Xraid, while it has dual heads, is *not* redundant dual-head.
 If one of those heads fail, the other won't pick up the workload.

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