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Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:08:32 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: motherboard for eCS

In <20061130042210.A58C686212@smtp4.pacifier.net>, on 12/01/06
at 12:23 AM, "Robert Blair" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com> said:

Hi,

>While I am thinking about hard drives is the SATA drive performance any
>good when compared to SCSI drives?

Unless you are prepared to purchase extreme high-end SCSI controllers
(U320) and drives (15K), I think you will find, in general, that SATA will
outperform SCSI. Keep in mind that Dani's drivers are highly optimized
and that all current EIDE and SATA hardware is DMA capable.

I suspect the only way you will see better performance with SCSI is if you
have an application that can keep 4 or 5 drives busy concurrently.

The jury is still out of drive life, but even if SCSI remains more
reliable, you still need backups. With IDE/SATA a spare drive for backups
is a low cost solution.

Steven

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