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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Lance A. Brown wrote
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:53 PM
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> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Microsoft tosell
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> 
> 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.

This is all very interesting considering that the SATA protocol is a subset
of the Serial Attached SCSI protocol with the primary difference being
whether drives offer additional throughput (1.5 gbs sata vs 3.0 gbs SAS) and
dual-ported connections such as fibre-channel offers.  SATA drives will even
work on SAS systems, but not the other way.

> 
> > 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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