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SCSI vs. SATA Hard Drives

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GoldFiles

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Fist of all, how do you use SCSI on a computer? Do you need to buy a PCI controller card? Does SCSI work in RAID? What are the major differences between scsi and raptor? Is one faster, cheaper, louder, etc?
 
Most folks use a SCSI card that fits in a PCI or PCI-X slot. There are some boards that have the SCSI controller soldered right onto the board, though. Basically, ask yourself "am I willing to pay the buy-in cost of the SCSI card, cable, and terminator, plus pay a high price per GB of storage, in exchange for exceptional performance under heavy seek activity, and a drive that's built to endure 5 years of heavy 24/7 use?"

Personally, I like SCSI a lot, it has a snappy feel and it really flies under certain seek-intensive tasks that I do (especially at work), but it isn't the right answer for people looking to store large quantities of, uh, "media files." If you're going to get a SCSI drive, wait a little longer for the Fujitsu MAU-series and the Seagate Cheetah 15k.4's to arrive on the market. Get 68-pin drives and maybe that LSI Logic 21320R retail-boxed card/cable/terminator kit at Newegg (around $140 IIRC).

*watches SCSI noOb flee in horror* :evil:
 
Then I think I would plow that money into the video card, CPU and motherboard, and lots of RAM, unless you're already maxed out in those areas.
 
money is now objective. And, yes, the other areas are maxed out. the computer is alreay built with 7200rpm ata HDs. i want to raid0 2wester digital raptors. sata 10,000 rpm
 
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