Why are SCA SCSI Drives cheaper than LVD SCSI Drives?

[McPhreak]

From what I've seen on these forums, there are no differences in performance between the two drives. I can understand that it might be a little cheaper since you have to buy an adapter, but the price difference between the 2 drives is MUCH more than the cost of an adapter. Is there any thing I'm missing out here? I want to get 2 10k SCSI drives to put into a RAID array and purchasing SCA drives would help a little with the cost. Thanks.

 

[bacillus]

could be because more sca hdds are made as they are used mainly by servers!
in spite of the extra cost for your box I'd stick with the standard 68 pin scsi hdd.

 

[PH0ENIX]

By SCA i'm assuming you mean drives with an SCA80 connection?

The purpose of that, really, is so that the drives can be more easily swappable - power and I/O on one connector makes for an ideal solution in something like a rack-mount hot-swappable array.

You'd have to get converters, which is something you should avoid using too many of
Or attach the drives to a backplane board - more expense.

I dont know how much cheaper it'd work out in the end; but LVD is a much better solution.