Douglas McNaught <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Vivek Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On May 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >> And dollar for dollar, SCSI will NOT be faster nor have the hard > >> drive capacity that you will get with SATA. > > > > Does this hold true still under heavy concurrent-write loads? I'm > > preparing yet another big DB server and if SATA is a better option, > > I'm all (elephant) ears. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never heard of a 15kRPM SATA drive. Well, dollar for dollar you would get the best performance from slower drives anyways since it would give you more spindles. 15kRPM drives are *expensive*. -- greg
