SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. -Derek At 10:46 AM 9/14/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. Get a 12 or 16 or 24 port Areca card and have a few hot spares and you will see SATA fly for less money than

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
Bill Moran wrote: Has anyone every verified whether or not SATA has the problems that plagued ATA? Such as crappy quality and lying caches? Personally, I still demand SCSI on production servers because it still seems as if: a) The performance is still better b) The reliability is still