When it comes for dedicated server hosting storage space you can have multiple harddrives for your server which can be connected via raid structure. You have different raid levels each having its unique importance also you have different types of harddrive available based on their interfaces like IDE and SCSI harddrives…
So, the question is !!! which harddrive is better IDE or SCSI drives?
Well, it depends on your budget and your website hosting requirements. Both harddrive architecture do have their importance and features, below listed features will help you to choose one as per your requirements.
IDE drives:-
• have higher capacity and offer more value for your money, if you’re
• not hosting that many sites
• a good RAID card is a must
• do not support as high a data transfer as SCSI
• usually limited to a RAID 0+1 configuration
• more practical for http servers, unless your site requires high amounts of script executions or database queries
SCSI drives :-
• are more expensive
• offer lower access times and higher throughputs
• lower CPU usage when accessing
• capable of RAID 5 configuration
• not very beneficial if hosting a few sites and one drive per channel
• better for database-driven and high traffic sites since they process more I/O inquiries per second
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This post was written by on June 4, 2009
