The slower spindle speed is about the only downside to IDE
anymore, and some companies are working on that, too. I know that Western
Digital has a Serial ATA drive now that runs at 10,000 rpm. Higher
spindle speed permits a higher throughput rate, which can be a big deal on
a busy database server.
It used to be that all the really cool stuff was only available on
SCSI: RAID controllers, fast throughput, multi-drive capability, etc. But
between the new IDE RAID controllers, Serial ATA, and 200+ GB hard drives,
IDE appears to have SCSI in a hole. If you really need to maximize your
throughput, look for a SATA RAID controller and get 10K rpm SATA drives to
fill it. The high-speed SATA drives don't have the mammoth capacities of
some other ATA (i.e., IDE) drives, though.
"Danna D. Swain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
07/11/2003 02:00 PM
Please respond to sql
To: SQL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:
Subject: RE: advice
OK, so if I just switch the RAID controller to an IDE controller, is there
a
downfall to IDE as opposed to SCSI. We are trying to increase our hard
drive space and the difference of pricing is the factor here!
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:53 PM
To: SQL
Subject: RE: advice
I assume you are losing the RAID controller and considering software
mirroring?
Don't do it if you can avoid it. I had the startup disks on my Exchange
server software mirrored in NT. Well, wouldn't you know it, the sectors
with the mirror information were some of the ones to go bad? Couldn't
break
the mirror, couldn't recover gracefully, ended up doing a "disaster
recovery" style system restoration.
If you want redundancy stay with some kind of hardware mirror or RAID.
There are some IDE mirroring controllers that different reviewers have had
good impressions upon using.
-Nate
Nathan Smith McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C. 515.288.3667
-----Original Message-----
From: Danna D. Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:24 PM
To: SQL
Subject: advice
I am currently running SQL Server 2000 and ColdFusion MX on a DELL server
with Windows 2000 Server, Raid Controller with 10,000 RPM SCSI hard
drives.
We are considering switching to 7200 RPM IDE hardrives and the use of
mirroring to replace the raid controller...Is there any references that
you
can share that would enlighten me on the pros and cons of both. Thanks.
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