From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 10 12:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A4837BBE9 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA18747; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Mike Tancsa Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3ware IDE Raid. SCSI killer? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000810140659.04a1cc40@marble.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I certainly agree that RAID IDE is no complete replacement for SCSI RAID, > but I think there are some situations where it is very cost effective.... > Using average prices (US dollars) for an 120GIG USENET partition for example. > > IDE RAID card $200 > 4 x 40GIG IDE $250 > ----- > $1200 > > vs > > Mylex SCSI RAID $500 > 4x 7200 36G IBM $500 > ----- > $2500 I had considered using only a SCSI card with software RAID and I did not realize there was such a disparity in the price of drives. I other words, I see your point. The price advantage is much larger than I had assumed. Thanks, Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message