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

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From: Terry Collins
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:20

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Phred wrote:

...snip....

> >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?
> 
> I have the impression from comments elsewhere in recent times that
> modern IDE drives are perfectly adequate and SCSI is quite simply
> over-priced, perhaps even over-rated, in comparison these days?

For home and SOHO and SME, IDE is probably quite okay.

But IDE isn't SCSI and without SCSI, you can not do RAID.

It really is a "business risk"
How much do you loose per hour when the computer system goes down?


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