backup systems

[Aaron Grewell]

Both of these statements are true.  Most small businesses will not be
able to tell the difference except that the ide drives cost less.  They
don't do enough with their servers to see the diff.  SCSI is still much
preferable for servers that see a lot of use.  I've used Linux software
RAID-5 on ATA-100 drives in a production environment.  They have been
fast enough and reliable enough for the small business I installed them
for, especially given the performance boost I gave their system by
replacing NT4 with Linux on the same low-end hardware.  


On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 11:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > IDE drives are reliable and fast enough now that most SMB will be
> > very happy with their performance.
> 
> *NO* IDE drives have performance eqivalent to a SCSI drive.  IDE is not
> designed to be able to produce a sustainable data transfer rate, as is the
> case with SCSI.