Btw, Mac OS X is unix (in the general term of course).
Read the Xserve RAID page. They are using that and here you'll find ATA drives with super fast fibre channels interfaces. 3.5TB in 3U.
SCSI has been, and still is, a great technology and you're right. As with USB and Firewire, Apple was the distributor for SCSI. But now this technology is no more used on newer servers. The compromise between performance and various engineering needs has made companies like Apple to chose (successfully) ATA and SATA drives. Their performance really depends on what configuration you're using just as I said.
That's why it's faulty to say (like many other things on planeth Earth): SCSI is much faster than SATA.
Like Mhz for microprocessors, RPMs are not the only thing to value the performance, Adrian.
Max
The one with Mac OS X Server 10.4 :)
Read the Xserve RAID page. They are using that and here you'll find ATA drives with super fast fibre channels interfaces. 3.5TB in 3U.
SCSI has been, and still is, a great technology and you're right. As with USB and Firewire, Apple was the distributor for SCSI. But now this technology is no more used on newer servers. The compromise between performance and various engineering needs has made companies like Apple to chose (successfully) ATA and SATA drives. Their performance really depends on what configuration you're using just as I said.
That's why it's faulty to say (like many other things on planeth Earth): SCSI is much faster than SATA.
Like Mhz for microprocessors, RPMs are not the only thing to value the performance, Adrian.
Max
The one with Mac OS X Server 10.4 :)
