LifeinAsia
msg:3803882 | 1:02 am on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Most of them should have SAS drives in the customization section.
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The Contractor
msg:3803885 | 1:06 am on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Nope, servers of quality are now using SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives. SATA drives are fine for desktop and even dedicated web servers, but most prefer SAS drives on web or other servers. Problem is they are expensive and not available in huge sizes compared to SATA drives. All of Dell's server and workstation lines are available with SAS drives I believe. [edited by: The_Contractor at 1:08 am (utc) on Dec. 10, 2008]
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Lord Majestic
msg:3803899 | 1:35 am on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
SAS allows to use SATA disks too. SCSI's only remaining strong point right now is low latency (good for DB apps), however SSDs are becoming strong contender in this area. SCSI is a loser for sure.
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J_RaD
msg:3814617 | 5:28 pm on Dec 26, 2008 (gmt 0) |
well look how many years SCSI has been around.
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Lord Majestic
msg:3814639 | 6:30 pm on Dec 26, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| well look how many years SCSI has been around. |
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SCSI market is very limited and I'd say it is shrinking - historically SCSI disks were very expensive (per GB) but they had lower latency which is good for databases, so they held up in that market. These days however SSD is providing much lower latencies and prices are falling so SCSI will soon compete with SSD rather than SATA/SAS.
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