Subj : Re: Sata v SCSI
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Allan Wind
Date : Wed Jul 28 2004 05:08 am

On 2004-07-28, Mike Keithley <mkeithley@pobox.com> wrote:
> Questions: How does SATA perform compared to SCSI?  Will there be more
> compatibility problems with SATA then with SCSI?  If SCSI is better,
> where do I find motherboards with on-board SCSI controllers?

(Parallel) SCSI will be replaced by serial attached SCSI (SAS) starting
in Q3 from what I can gather.  SAS will be backwards compatible with
SATA, not the other way around and I do not think with (parallel) SCSI
either.

If you cannot wait for SAS to take off, then I suggest you invest in
SATA instead at this point in time.

Tyan makes motherboards with SCSI controllers built in, you may also
want to consider a card instead (on that, note that there seem to be
a shift underway from PCI to PCI Express).


/Allan

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