[wplug] OT: IDE drives and PowerEdge 2300?

Fri Dec 16 02:37:46 EST 2005

SCSI Controllers are generally a lot less interrupt intenseive.

SCSI drives tend to have faster RPMs, bigger caches.  SCSI drives tend
to have longer warranties.  SCSI busses are more manageable; SCSI buses
have faster throughput.

SATA blurs all of these distinctions, though. 

~BAS

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:17, jd wrote:
> I was just quoted $530+ by Dell for adding two 73GB SCSI hard drives with
> trays to an old PowerEdge 2300 machine.
> 
> Are there any significant disadvantages to adding IDE drives and an IDE
> card instead of the SCSI drives?
> 
> This machine would serve as a stand-by file server...
> 
> Janos Dohanics
> 
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