[BBLISA] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

If you have a poweredge 2950, then you have a perc 5 card, no doubt.  If
your internal drive slots (front of the machine) are all maxed out, I think
you need to buy another perc card to control something external.

I don't think fibre channel is in use for these, unless you were to use some
sort of SAN.  In which case, I'm sure you have no choice about underlying
hardware.

If you're buying DAS from dell, I think your choices are SATA vs SAS.  For a
small number of disks, there are performance improvements with SAS, but if
you're putting a whole bunch of disks into an array together, both the SATA
and SAS disks will max out the 3Gb bus.  So then you might as well save the
money and go with SATA.  That's what I do, and that's what I recommend.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 4:23 PM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?
> 
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more 
> storage.   I know 
> a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but 
> for present and future technology planning, should I look for 
> a rack of SATA, SCSI, or 
> fibre channel drives?    Maybe I'm dating myself with fibre 
> channel, and 
> possibly SCSI?
> 
> I may be looking to add a few TB now, and possibly more later.
> 
> What are people using these days?   What throughput and 
> reliability are 
> you seeing?   What accounts for the cost differences?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
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