Whats is the main difference between SCSI and SATA? Is the main difference reliability? In an enterprise environment, I know Seagate and WD have "Enterprise" type drives that are SATA... Thanks!
2006-08-18 06:06:47 · 4 answers · asked by vintagevolks2000 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
SCSI is way faster and more reliable than SATA. SATA is cheaper. So if cost is your primary measurement then SATA is the winner. If speed and reliability are important the SCSI is the winner.
I could do a long dissertation as to the reasons, but the guy in this link does a fine job of explaining it.
Anyone thinks that the only difference is the connection scheme, does not know what he is talking about. I started out designing SMA drive controllers 27 years ago and SMA was faster than SCSI but the controllers & drives were a lot more costly to design & build, so SCSI won as the market moved to Mainframes to personal computers. IDE/ATA will win not because it is a better performer but because it is cheaper.
2006-08-18 08:57:11 · answer #1 · answered by bondoman01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sata and scsi are both almost the same except for the way they are cabled in, sata also can be striped to where both hard drives can be used as 1!
2006-08-18 06:17:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its more trusted and way faster my unix workstation uses scsi and my pc has sata both have hd's at 7,200 the unix goes faster
2006-08-18 06:14:03 · answer #3 · answered by Demetri N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-32%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=scsi+vs+sata
2006-08-18 06:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋