[Pc_Support] Re: SCSI (parallel) is dead, long live SCSI (serial)! -- WAS: Maxtor 100GB Serial ATA (SATA) drive $99.99 - $65.00rebate

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 21 November 2005 19:23, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> > In the future I'll be buying SATA or SATA-II/I/O
> > stuff for my personal systems and probably doing 3Ware
> > SATA RAID on my limited multi-user servers.
> > In short, at least for my individual needs SCSI disks,
> > especially new, are too expensive for marginal gains over
> > commodity SATA disks.
>
> Or you can just opt for a SAS card next time -- it does both
> SATA and SAS, while supporting hardware RAID-0, 1 and 1e "for
> free."

I guess, but I imagine SAS stuff will be quite a bit more expensive than 
commodity, consumer SATA stuff.  I'll probably go with the later due to 
price.  It's good enough for home usage.

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Jason Boxman
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