Re: SATA vs SCSI, 10 user SBS2003, and MS HCL list

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I have used the 5033 and 5 year warranty SATA drives and have been very
happy with the build. I would put it on par with any of the Intel certified
server cage combo's and probably rate it higher when it comes to ease of
install. I have been building servers for at least 10 years and have been an
Intel only builder for about as long however SuperMicro seems to make a very
solid unit and support seemed to be very good although I have not had a
system down event yet and hopefully never do just to test it out. As far as
SATA drives go I have no issues withusing them in a hardware raid system as
long as that system is either being aimed at the small office enviroment
(users go home, not a 24x7 shop) or it is just a giant file server. SCSI is
still king in my book for 24x7 hard hitting action especially when running
things like databases with lots of reads and writes.


"David F" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Seems most on this ng don't like SATA on servers. It seems mobo RAID +
> WD Raptor drives gives inexpensive RAID 1, if it works. Tiny networks
> have limited budgets.
>
> Case in point, we're looking to have built a SuperMicro box using P8SCT
> mobo, which is on the HCL when bought in one of SuperMicros
> SuperServers: 5014C-MT. Specifically it is tested for Win2003 Server. As
> I understand it, anything on the HCL for Win2003 is supposed to work for
> SBS2003. (Btw, this mobo uses Intel 1CH6R.)
>
> Ok, so its supposed to work. Real world otherwise? If so, what good is
> the HCL?
>
> Anyone got this working? Had problems? Thanks?
>
>


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