On BSD! :-) On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:55 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > > I’m of the mindset that SCSI/SAS is becoming superfluous – as soon as > $/Gb > > for good SSD is less than $/Gb of SAS then what do you need SAS for? > There > > is probably some big DB / multiple concurrent user area where SAS will be > > better I’m guessing though. Thoughts? > > SCSI evolved into a whole family of standards a long time ago. SPI > (SCSI Parallel Interface) has been obsolete for a while now, really. > SAS does have some things over SATA (longer distances, more > consistent implementation of hotswap, maybe some other stuff I > forgot), but for the most part SATA is good enough for almost > everything. But even then, SATA borrows several things from other > SCSI standards. SATA and SAS are so similar it's hard to tell them > apart at times. One could argue that SATA is as much SCSI as it is > "AT Attachment". Your optical SATA drive almost certainly uses the > SCSI MMC command set, for example. And then there's iSCSI. Cheap > SATA disks on a standard mobo, exported via iSCSI. > > In other words: SCSI is dead, long live SCSI. :-) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
