[K12OSN] SATA vs SCSI

[Liam Marshall]

this is my current hard drive situation, which will probably have to 
stay until next year.

1 - small regular ide drive for the system to boot off of.  I
t holds the /boot partition and does nothing else
1 - 8 GB ibm SCSI drive, holding /root /usr etc
1 - 18 HB Seagate SCSI holding  /home /opt and the /swap partition

no raid

In an earlier thread, someone mentioned using SATA drives successfully 
with a large number of users, 25+
When I go to configure next years server(we will upgrade) can I use SATA 
drives in a raid 0 configuration?  I want to increase performance hence 
the raid 0, but heard that SATA drives might not handle a class of 25+ 
workstations

any advice?

SATA is cheaper, I assume, than SCSI, so that would be a preferred path 
if true