[Gllug] IDE RAID

[Tethys]

andy at mac1systems.com writes:

>Speed and reliability.
>
>Go for the new 133 drives (serial ATA?), but even these are slower than
>scsi drives (7000rpm against 10,000rpm).

Current SCSI drives are 15000 RPM. But the larger drives tend to run
slower, to keep down the heat, and increase reliability. For example,
Seagate's 181GB SCSI Barracuda runs at 7200rpm. Of course, it has a
hefty 16MB cache, a 160MB/s transfer rate, and will trounce a similarly
sized IDE drive in performance, but that's why it costs 4 times as much...

Tet

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