Phred wrote in message
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David H. Lipman wrote
Tom Scales wrote
David H. Lipman wrote
Go RAID 5 and SCSI and you will not have the
artificial barriers of IDE hard disk controllers. Plus
you a very reliable and very fast disk sub-system.
That's ridiculous. A $900 computer and $1500 worth of disk.
Yep, mad.
250GB works fine in a 4550.
Except...
You are not taking into account; the importance of the data,
the reliability factor and the sheer speed that RAID 5 provides.
I can understand your enthusiasm for a RAID system that provides
data redundancy, but do you need to run a SCSI system to do this?
Nope. Tho RAID5 IDE aint that common.
I have the impression from comments elsewhere in recent
times that modern IDE drives are perfectly adequate and
Correct, and the I in RAID is for INEXPENSIVE.
SCSI is quite simply over-priced,
Correct.
perhaps even over-rated,
Correct.
in comparison these days?
Been that way for years now.
There are still a few advantages with SCSI if you really need
full hotswap RAID5, particularly rather more choice, but you
pay one hell of a price for that and very few actually need full
hotswap RAID5 with personal desktop systems anyway.
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