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Re: Scsi vs Sata Which one would be better for me ?
« on: May 05, 2009, 05:48:40 PM »
For a home computer you'd be mad to go with anything other than SATA. I use 8-drive SATA RAID6 for my Windows network.

They are cheap, very large capacity (2TB/drive) and have a reasonable bandwidth and MTBF.

SAS  - (Serial SCSI) is too expensive and drives are too small, plus you would need a new expensive PCIe SAS RAID controller as your motherboard is unlikely to support SAS

SSD  - Drives are WAY too expensive and drives are WAY too small. This is an immediate non-starter.

PATA - You cannot buy them any more in the largest sizes, they are now more expensive than SATA.

UWSCSI - Drives are too small, too expensive and like PATA are being phased out. You'd need to buy a PCIe SCSI RAID card and depending on your motherboard it would probably slower than SATA.