[Beowulf] SATA vs SCSI drives

George Georgalis george at galis.org
Sun Oct 10 16:44:14 PDT 2004


On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:01:37PM -0400, H.Vidal, Jr. wrote:
>Which SATA drives are considered 'the best' the way, say Seagate drives are
>held in high esteem for SCSI?
>
>And, if anybody likes any particular RAID and/or NAS system, let's hear
>your stories. About 1.4-1.7 Terabyte raw space.

I've heard these are a good value
http://www.winsys.com/products/flata.php

If you build your own, the 3com controllers can be had under $400 and are
said to be quite good. I'm booting SATA with a $35 addonics controller on
a workstation -- which I consider as reliable, faster and cheaper than
ATA. But that setup wasn't without difficulty setting up.

// George


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