backup systems

Ronnie Gauthier ronnieg
Mon May 17 11:31:45 PDT 2004


True. But as I stated, most SMB(Small/Medium Business) never put that 
much demand on a system. SCSI is overkill for them.

On Friday 24 May 2002 18:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> > On Friday 24 May 2002 08:43, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > IDE RAID is *garbage*.  If you're going to use hardware RAID,
> > > use SCSI, or don't bother.
> >
> > Not true.
> > 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.

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Ronnie Gauthier
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