On Jun 4, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Remo Lacho wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you use USB or Firewire
drives on a
production server?
Firewire makes a really nice hot-pluggable I/O bus which works nicely
with external devices. Your typical external Firewire drive is
generally a medium-decent IDE drive (ie, one with a 3-year warranty
and more cache than the typical drive sold today) using an IDE->FW
converter.
Firewire is especially well suited to things like movie editting and
other A/V work, and I'd rather use it than IDE for those kind of
tasks. It's not clear that even Ultra320 SCSI is a better choice as
an interface, although the highest-end SCSI drives are probably more
reliable. You'd have to switch up to a fibre-channel SAN to get a
system which is significantly faster or more fault-tolerant.
[ I don't think so highly of USB2. ]
--
-Chuck
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