[K12OSN] server hard drives: SCSI or SATA?

[Dan Young]

Chuck Kollars wrote:
> The conventional wisdom used to be that SCSI was preferred for file
> servers because the drives were quite a bit more reliable. BUT
> somebody told me the mechanical parts of all hard drives are now
> exactly the same (only one manufacturing line) and only the interface
> electronics are different.

IME, the real benefit of SCSI is significantly higher random I/O under load.

In a RAID setup, the MTBF of individual drives is less important.

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Dan Young <dan_young at mesd.k12.or.us>
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