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Hard drive question
Internal IDE, Serial ATA, and Internal SCSI. What is the difference between the three?
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SCSI is fastest, usually used for servers.
SATA is slightly faster than IDE ("normal" ATA) The only reason right now to get a SATA drive is cause of the super slim cable :) |
Re: Hard drive question
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*Assume native SATA drive and round cables for IDE* Price: SCSI > SATA > IDE Speed: SCSI > SATA > IDE Cable Size: SCSI > IDE > SATA Max RPMs: SCSI > SATA = IDE Number of Deviced Per Channel: SCSI > IDE > SATA RAID Flexibility: SCSI > SATA = IDE Capacity: IDE > SATA > SCSI |
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Yes, but the SATA cables are about the width of a rounded cable, but as thin as a ribbon cable and without the big connector. They really are small.
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Thanks guys I think I'll just get SCSI because I'm just planning to run servers on the computer.
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make sure your mobo supports scsi though.
dont you need like a scsi controller and a host adapter or something like that?? |
If you don't have a SCSI controller on the motherboard along with necessary connections, you will need a PCI SCSI controller card.
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SATA is cheaper than SCSI and if you have a new mobo already it might support SATA already, but SCSI it likely wont.
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Honestly, the reliability that SCSI touts over IDE/SATA is really not a huge factor.
Plus, Western Digital is now making 10k RPM SATA drives with 5 year warranties. Granted, they only have a 36GB capacity, but two of those babies in a RAID 0 config would smoke! And, it wouldn't cost as much as SCSI, thats for sure. |
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