SCSI: Why...why not?

[eye of the hawk]

Well, with this (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=537182) seemingly right around the bend, i doubt i'll ever invest the money into SCSI, but i've always been intrigued...to say the least.

None the less, for about $300 you can get 2 15k, 36gig H/D's to run in RAID. How much faster would this be than say, a single Raptor?

[SeasonalEclipse]

For 300 you can get two raptors to run in raid 0. But compared to one the SCSI would be better.. but SCSI is very impractical now a days unless if you can find a real steal for the RAID controller.

[JamesXP]

Yes sure but your good controller is gonna run you another 500+

[Phoenix '97]

If you can pick up used parts like I did you can get some sweet deals:
U160 SCSI controller (non-RAID) for $25 or so
36GB 15K SCSI drive for something like $60 each, maybe less nowadays.

OpenOffice 2.2 takes all of 5 seconds to load (swriter).
MSN, AIM, YIM loading up all at the same time takes about 2-3 seconds of just hard drive seeking, those each of these is on a seperate SCSI drive.

[Joeteck]

I love SCSI, and IMO, SCSI still has its place... SATA has NCQ, not quite the same as TCQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Command_Queuing) for SCSI...

SCSI can and will execute multiple read & write requests without any issues...

SATA on the other hand will not. I have two 150 gig raptors in RAID 1, and its looking to be a very big mistake. It works, but can't keep up.

SCSI is for servers and high end workstations. Not really for gamers.

I have one workstation @ home that runs SCSI..

[gangaskan]

Yes sure but your good controller is gonna run you another 500+

hehe i got a extreme raid 2000 from a friend for free :) <3 friends that work a computer recycling companies he gets tons of crap, tried selling me a dual 1ghz xeon 2u rack for 80 bucks

too bad i had the server i have no before :( gah!

[Ben333]

For everyday stuff and gaming I think you will see little to no difference in 10k - 15k SATA than in SCSI. Unless you are working on a large server or maybe a workstation handling say CAD files that are multiple gigs in size.