[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Mon Jan 7 12:20:26 CST 2008


Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Drive vs. Drive, in similarly striped arrays, I *suspect* performance woud be
> similar for either SATA or FC-AL...
>
> Correct?
>   
That depends on how you test performance.  Sequential disk reads?  
Seeks?  Random Reads?  According to storagereview.com, the fastest 
"single user" drive is the WD Raptor SATA, but the fastest "server" 
drive is the Seagate Cheetah 15k.5 SAS.

    -Dan Sikorski



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