Re: SCSI vs SATA hard disks

Haines Brown wrote:

For many years I've been devoted to SCSI hard disks, but market trends
seem to suggest SCSI is dying out. If that the case, does my sticking
with SCSI any longer make sense?

SCSI is for the server market, while SATA drives mostly are consumer grade.
SATA drives are specified for 8/24 use, while SCSI are for 24/7.
You can of course get SATA server grade drives as well, since most new
storage cabinets have moved to SATA.
The drives then are not much cheaper than SCSI drives.

Would a move to a SATA 3.0 Gb/s drive such as the Seagate Barracuda mean
that I will henceforth have to accept drive unreliability? I'm more
interested in reliability than top speed (or, obviously, even cost).

If I were to attach a SATA drive to my desktop machine, I'd be inclined
to do a cross install of linux to the new SATA drive from my running
SCSI drive. Any reason such a procedure would be problematic because of
the interface difference?

Both use the scsi interface layer, but you need the chipset drivers or
drivers for your scsi/sata controller in place (kernel or initrd if you
want to boot from the attached drives).
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