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mtsgsd · 06-25-2003, 06:58 AM

Another note about the RAID. There really isn't that much advantage to going SCSI anymore except in one area. If you need a lot of drives hooked up, or hooked up in a separate box, you have to go scsi since IDE is limited to 2 devices per port, and 18" max cable length (and yet vendors sell 24" cables

).

IDE is just about as fast, and a whole lot cheaper. 3rd party RAID cards can give you the ability to stripe more drives than what you'd be limited to with an onboard controller, and you have the ability to swap it out later if it breaks or becomes obsolete. Serial ATA is the next big thing, and will give you the daisy chaining ability of SCSI, but it's very new and expensive. Not to mention hard to find.

06-25-2003, 06:58 AM	#7 (permalink)
mtsgsd Addict Location: Wisconsin, USA	Another note about the RAID. There really isn't that much advantage to going SCSI anymore except in one area. If you need a lot of drives hooked up, or hooked up in a separate box, you have to go scsi since IDE is limited to 2 devices per port, and 18" max cable length (and yet vendors sell 24" cables ). IDE is just about as fast, and a whole lot cheaper. 3rd party RAID cards can give you the ability to stripe more drives than what you'd be limited to with an onboard controller, and you have the ability to swap it out later if it breaks or becomes obsolete. Serial ATA is the next big thing, and will give you the daisy chaining ability of SCSI, but it's very new and expensive. Not to mention hard to find.