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RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?



On 8/20/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I may be looking to add a few TB now, and possibly more later.

Traditionally SCSI drives have been on the smaller side, and SATA
drives are larger...

> What are people using these days?   What throughput and reliability are you
> seeing?   What accounts for the cost differences?

Serial-Attached-SCSI could be useful here.  I'm forwarding your email
to my buddy Peter Petrakis who works on high-performance storage
drivers in the Linux kernel.  He always has a good sense of that stuff
at the low-level.  Of course, he is a kernel hacker :-)
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

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