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March 30, 2004 09:30 PM

Comparing SATA RAID and SCSI RAID

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Bob Chronister
Windows IT Pro
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I've noticed that many new motherboards come with Serial ATA (SATA) RAID options. My company is in the process of replacing some old SCSI RAID—based servers, and we're considering purchasing some SATA RAID—enabled systems. What are the advantages and disadvantages of SATA RAID compared with SCSI RAID?

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Only WD Raptor offers 10K rpm, if you want to go economical, choose Hitachi/IBM GXP series drives.
For SATA, Samsung spin point series is also one of the best.
For more speed, get a raid card with cache module support. You can add 128MB or more buffer...
fastest solution

Anonymous User 2/3/2005 5:08:35 AM

i have a 300 gig maxtor sata 7200 rpm 16 meg cache for my storage but for a main drive to run your OS would u rather a 10,000 rpm drive with 8 megs of cache or a 7200 rpm with 16 megs of cache both sata which would be better to run a OS off

Anonymous User 1/29/2005 3:24:39 PM

Right to the point the way I like it.

Anonymous User 10/27/2004 3:34:37 PM

sata is available at 10k rpm, Western Digital Raptor 74Gb S-ATA [10K]

Patricio Araya 5/6/2004 10:55:09 AM

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