I'm setting up a web server on a T1 line. The T1 line has a bandwidth limit of 1.544Mbit = 193K/sec. With that kind of a bottleneck, why should I bother wasting money on a SCSI drive? Even the slowest ATA drive would still bottleneck at the T1, pushing out 40-50MB/sec until it hits the T1.
2007-04-20 13:52:47 · 2 answers · asked by John 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
While your calculations may be true, SCSI disks will surely be much more reliable and last a lot longer than IDE drives. If you plan on configuring RAID on your server the SCSI disks will out perform those IDE/SATAS any day. You may be thinking in terms of transfering files and being bottlenecked by the T-1 Line, but what if you have several hundred users reading/writing to your server at one time? This is where SCSI will outperform IDE.
By all means, don't spend the extra money if you don't need it, I'm just telling you the advantages.
2007-04-20 14:39:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well normally with a web server you would like some form of RAID. whether you go SCSI or not is up to you. SCSI will perform better even though the delivery line is low you have to consider how many users may make a request for a file while another is downloading etc .. in other words the machine is working harder than the line.
I use sata raids these days and don't notice much difference in performance until I am doing a backup or some other disk intensive task while the server is still serving!
2007-04-20 21:35:22 · answer #2 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋