On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:25:22 +0100, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
SATA vs. SCSI -- SCSI is theoretically faster, although many say that the practical difference is minimal. SCSI is theoretically more reliable, but with 2 SATA drives in RAID redundant configuration, this is a very minor issue?
SCSI performance is better in practice too, especially when you have multiple hard disks. But the work those boxes will have to do (load balancers, squid, web serving, mail server) does not seem HD intensive, if they have enough RAM.
I agree- imo only the database servers and (if used) the fileservers for images/media need fancy hds.
Gabriel Wicke