SCSI for Server OS

[InlineFour]

the main server in my network will have raid 5 configuration for data and 1 seperate drive for the OS. obviously SCSI has much lower access time so it would be faster. will i notice those speed difference for my file server though?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
the main server in my network will have raid 5 configuration for data and 1 seperate drive for the OS. obviously SCSI has much lower access time so it would be faster. will i notice those speed difference for my file server though?

For 2 users? 200? 2000? 20,000?

In order for anyone to help in a meaningful way, you're going to need to provide vastly, vastly, vastly more information.

 

[InlineFour]

it's just a server for home use so no more than 10 users.

 

[halfadder]

I wouldn't bother with SCSI unless you're going to have a lot of users accessing a lot of data all at the same time.

And even then, consider Serial-Attached-SCSI (SAS).

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
it's just a server for home use so no more than 10 users.

And what will you do with it?

More information, please. Just to store a few gigs of files? Media server with 10 simultaneous users? What?

 

[Zepper]

Use SCSI (at reasonable cost - older generation drives, etc.) for reliability. If you are John Q. Gotrocks, you can buy SCSI for speed. New 15k.5 Seagate up to 125MB/sec per drive! Cost? If you have to ask, you don't wanna know... Otherwise use SATA and keep a good backup.

.bh.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: InlineFour
the main server in my network will have raid 5 configuration for data and 1 seperate drive for the OS. obviously SCSI has much lower access time so it would be faster. will i notice those speed difference for my file server though?

Is your network gigabit ethernet? How will your clients access the data? If wirelessly, you'll never notice a difference between the fastest SCSI and the slowest IDE. If 10/100, you probably won't notice the difference. If Gige, you might notice a difference, sometimes, if multiple clients are hitting the fileserver hard.

With just 10 users, particularly in a home environment, most of that is just pointless.