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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:40:11 -0400
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
To:        Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>
Cc:        Marc =?ISO-8859-1?B?Ry4=?= Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, chad@shire.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
Message-ID:  <cone.1151484011.696455.14057.5001@35st-server.simplicato.com>
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Atom Powers writes:

> Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA drives
> (and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital Raptor drives are
> every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get.

Perhaps as the ones you used to get, but not as good as you can get.

Dont get me wrong.. I can get approval to go SCSI since our machines need at 
least 1T+ (the storage machines), but looking at the benchmarks at 
storagereview (http://storagereview.com) shows there is still a significant 
performance difference between SCSI and SATA. 



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