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: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 03:08

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"Terry Collins" <terryc@woa.com.au> wrote in message news:3FCFC145.F9DFD2A@woa.com.au...
> 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.

That last is complete and utter drivel.

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

Not even relevant for most personal desktop systems.

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