Re: ????SATA or SCSI????

I just deployed a server with SAS drives. I'm hoping the technology is
reliable - it's certainly fast :-). The choice was between SCSI or SAS, SATA
wasn't considered. The SAS drives/raid controllers offer a degree of
configuration flexibility not previously available - and as SAS is touted as
the technology that will replace SCIS, the choice was made.

I did have 1 of 8 drives fail within a week, but obviously that can't be
considered significant at this early stage.

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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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understand." - Confucius


"SimonR" <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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SCSI

IDE/SATA is fine for TOYS!!

The drives are NOT designed for 24/7 x 365 use and they are slow (7200RPM)

Western Digital produce RAPTOR drives - these are FASTER 10K RPM (speed)
and designed for 24/7 x 365

I always recommend SCSI - having said that my Server uses IDE - but its a
TOY!

If budget is low just use 2 drive in Mirror (RAID-1) setup

and finally - TAPE backup don't use USB HDD
for what they cost I replace tapes every year - the old ones get used for
MONTH END backup

*** You can't have too many backups ***



"Michael Tovey" <michael.spamtovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have just had another SATA HDD crash on me in my SBS- 2003 STD server
and
I was wondering!

Have any other people had problems with SATA when used to hold data in
their
SBS server.

I have been told by a furm that we sometime use when I get a bit tight on
time that SATA is NO good to be used on Data servers and that we NEED
SCSI
Raid 5!

We have about 10GB MAX on the disks and only about 12 people accessing,
and
maybe only 5 at the same time!

What do you all think??????
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SBS 2003 - Admin
SVR 2003 - Admin
SQL 2005 - Admin





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