SATA Versus SCSI on SAN

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Dear All
We are currently a medium size of network of 150 Computers and now we are installing the centralize storage stystem SAN of all servers i.e 5 servers

Servers Are
1- Domain controller
2- Additional Domain controller + File Server
3- Exchange server 21 GB Database
4- ISA server
5- Database server SQL 2000 with 2 GB Database

now our plan is to migrate all the storage on a single SAN (Intel Base) which SATA supported drives. now our purpose is the high performance storage system not a coast effactive..
Please tell me the bast supported HDD according to our need

Thanks

Siraj

 

[Big B]

The Western Digital Raptor X (the 150GB version) is the best thing for performance storage outside of a 15,000RPM SCSI drive. It's not exactly cheap compared to other SATA drives, but it might be worth it when you compare to SCSI drives. I wouldn't advise going slower than this, or you may run into trouble, depending on the traffic you get.

Are you looking to use a 3rd party SATA card with this as well? If you are, get one that uses a hardware-based controller card, not software, or you'll be better off just using what's on the motherboard. 3rd party, hardware-based controller cards are more expensive (so don't look at something that's under $100), but since they do the computations for the disk arrays, this helps performance by not having to stand in-line for the CPU itself. You might use a smaller drive for the OS and keep that separate as well, but that's just a suggestion.