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Thanks for the info Manny.

BTW, why do you recommend a RAID 10?

I was thinking of a RAID 5 setup.


"Manny Borges" <MannyBorges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am a big SCSI fan but SATA is slowly winning me over with its price
>points.
> I have found that real inexpensive SATA drives do not perform at the level
> of
> SCSI, but for a small work group and the uses you specified a good six
> drive
> raid 10 with a hardware raid controller you would do ok.
>
> They kick donkey on worksations.
>
> SCSI is more expensive, but it offers more option in terms of the amount
> of
> drives supported per controller, lots of great hotswap/hotspare hardware
> options, and the addition of other kinds of devices - like a tape backup.
> (BTW, check out the new LTO standard tape format, 1.6 TB per tape when
> generation 4 comes out!!!)
>
> I think that you are going to find that you will end up with a bottleneck
> at
> the NIC doing the over the network backups, but that is controllable with
> staggered back ups.
>
> A good NIC team can help with that.
>
> "Brian" wrote:
>
>> Sorry All,
>>
>> I meant to include this info:
>>
>> Total users 10-12.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> "Brian" <treddderx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:e3zpdNkfFHA.3160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Howdy All,
>> >
>> > Our company is going to (finally) implement a server solution.
>> >
>> > The server will function for the following:
>> >
>> > ACT! central DB
>> > Document Imaging/Managment DB (MS SQL)
>> > Workstation backup
>> >
>> > We WON'T be using it for:
>> >
>> > email
>> > webserver
>> > firewall.
>> >
>> >
>> > Questions:
>> >
>> > 1) I need a little advice on a SATA vs. SCSI disk array for the
>> > intended
>> > applications.
>> > 2) Real-world experience with both.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Brian
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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