Re: SCSI or SATA

I concurr with John... until a while ago I used SCSI on all my servers, but
the last couple of servers have been using SATA and its has been incredibly
fast. I know that SATA are supposed to be slower than SCSI, but I can't
honestly notice the difference.

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Javier [SBS MVP]
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"David Hellewell" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your fast reply John, I meant Raid 1, slip of the finger.
>
> --
> Regards
> David Hellewell
> "John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have a few clients running SATA with good results in performance. I
>>would also suggest running at least RAID 1 as RAID 0 provides no fault
>>tolerance.
>>
>> --
>> John Oliver, Jr.
>> MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
>> Microsoft Certified Partner
>>
>> "David Hellewell" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:2UDBe.30$FY.952@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi,
>>> I am looking at replacing the SBS 2000 Server with SBS 2003. The
>>> existing Server has SCSI drives and need your advise on the new server.
>>> As SATA drives are cheaper than SCSI has anyone used SATA in hardware
>>> Raid 0 and if so hows the performance vs SCSI?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>> David Hellewell
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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