Hi all, I would like to put together a small server with linux. Is scsi or sata better for file transfer speeds? Is there any other types of hd connections I should look at? Does anyone have a benchmark/transfer rate numbers anywhere? thanks, charles.....

***** charles staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I would like to put together a small server with linux. Is scsi or > sata better for file transfer speeds? [Are] there any other types of > hd connections I should look at? SCSI is faster than SATA if you spend a lot of money on 15K SCSI drives. If you don't want to do that, you will be better off with SATA in terms of bang/buck. > Does anyone have benchmark/transfer rate numbers anywhere? There are three species of mendacity, each worse than the last: Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. -- A project for developing fully automatically driven cars (not just those misnamed auto-pilots) has been improved by your explosive flatulence. --MegaHAL, trained on ASR Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see

"***** charles" <me@planetearth.com> wrote in message news:UtSLi.9713$JD.6824@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net... > Hi all, > > I would like to put together a small server with linux. > Is scsi or sata better for file transfer speeds? Is there > any other types of hd connections I should look at? > Does anyone have a benchmark/transfer rate numbers > anywhere? How are you going to connect the server to other machines? THAT will be your bottleneck.