[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE HARDWARE RAID

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:45, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 00:13:44 (-0400), Andrew Weiss wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE   HARDWARE RAID
> >
> > And pretty damn sweet looking too...
> > 
> > They should have used SCSI inside however,
> 
> Why?  They way they built it (custom SCA-II hot-swap bays, one channel
> per disk, etc.) it's _*WAY*_ cheaper and *way* faster than any SCSI
> system of the same size could be built.

Ever tried to find an IDE drive with a 10 year warranty?  
IDE is certainly going to be cheaper, but I'd be willing to bet that you
could put together an U160 SCSI setup with only 4 drives that would
knock the socks off of this thing in terms of access speed and data
throughput, just based on having faster drives available.  
	Greg

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