Drive to Drive, the SCSI320's beat the SATA's. We have 10,000RPM SATA's on workstations, and we also have SCSI 320's on servers.
You're talking about a large commerce application.
A Store like iTunes will be built on a full database commerce platform, which as you point out, typically use large drive arrays and distributed databases on multiple servers. They also use MANY GB of Drive Cache RAM or virtual RAM drives to speed things up, and custom server tunings, and special server software.
You get a lot of performance with a couple million of hardware invested, right?
Who says they are on ATA drives, though? Where did you hear that?
You must remember, Apple made SCSI very popular years back!
There was a very recent article / tech analysis comparing drive types on one of the hardware sites recently.
I was amazed at the difference in speed, because I had thought that the SATA drives would make a better showing. (not video streaming)
If I can find it, I will post it for your thoughts.
Oh, and final thought.... System to System, the Apple OS's are much faster with drive operations over Windows. Got a little bit to do with where the directory index files are placed on the disk, etc. Of course I'm not saying Linux or Unix.
You're talking about a large commerce application.
A Store like iTunes will be built on a full database commerce platform, which as you point out, typically use large drive arrays and distributed databases on multiple servers. They also use MANY GB of Drive Cache RAM or virtual RAM drives to speed things up, and custom server tunings, and special server software.
You get a lot of performance with a couple million of hardware invested, right?
Who says they are on ATA drives, though? Where did you hear that?
You must remember, Apple made SCSI very popular years back!
There was a very recent article / tech analysis comparing drive types on one of the hardware sites recently.
I was amazed at the difference in speed, because I had thought that the SATA drives would make a better showing. (not video streaming)
If I can find it, I will post it for your thoughts.
Oh, and final thought.... System to System, the Apple OS's are much faster with drive operations over Windows. Got a little bit to do with where the directory index files are placed on the disk, etc. Of course I'm not saying Linux or Unix.
