Author: Ragstaff (proxybris.vivanet.com.au)
Date: 04-22-2001 09:04
OK, you probablu know this, but servers don't use SCSI because the drives are more reliable, but because they can connect a whole heap of drives at the same time and use RAIDs and all other sort of weird server-dude contraptions to make data safer and get served quicker. An IDE drive is no slower than a SCSI drive. No hard drive could deliver enough data to exhaust either an IDE or SCSI bus to (a 5400rpm drive is a 5400 drive! SCSI or IDE), but when you want to write to one drive on the bus, and read from another at the same time, while duplicating these processes on two back up drives or something like that, SCSI is the one to use!
But maybe, because there is more money in the administrators of corporate and intranet servers than humble home users, the IDE drives are made as cheap as possible (even though you could make a SCSI just as cheap and nasty), and the SCSI drives are built well (even though you could make an IDE drive just as good)
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