Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:02

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Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote
>> Tom Scales <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote
>>> David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> 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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