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.
SCSI disks are usually more reliable, simply because disk manufacturers
test them more and use higher quality components (hence the bigger price).
If our boxes are redundant, and each box has a RAID 1 array, I don't think
that going with IDE/SATA is a problem.
Alfio