IDE RAID vs. SCSI: Who Will Win?

[Blane]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/storage/ide-scsi/

 

[netman]

it depends on how serious you are. ide raid is fine for harry homeowner but for a real business solution there still is no substitute for scsi. mission-critical applications can't take chances dealing with unproven technology.

 

[LTR12101B]

There are only TWO valid basic RAID configurations if you want speed and reliability.

1. A four-drive, Raid 0+1 set
2. A three drive, Raid 5 set (or use the 4 and have I drive more capacity than above

A pure disk striped (Raid 0) has double the failure potential of a single drive.

On the other hand - an IDE RAID with redundancy (including Raid 1 mirroring, or Raid 5 distributed parity) has a fault torance advantage over a single drive of any type.

 

[netman]

there are a lot more options than that, although many are not viable. i have servers with more than 4 drives too. i run stripe sets with parity on all of those for performance and fault tolerance.

still, the original question deals with ide vs. scsi and not which raid level you use. when it comes to stripe sets ide can't compare to the performance of scsi.

 

[elpresidente]

hmm...would love to have a scsi raid set... lol...but the hdds r to expensive the controller is also not that cheap ..hehe

but I´m sure that there is a reason why it is that expensive

üsse

 

[Blane]

I have the (Raid 0) setup on the desktop and it works fine but, like netman said for anything else it's just not up to par. And not even the average home computer is setup in a raid.