a raptor will cost about as much as a 147GB 10K SCSI drive, and 10K & 15K SCSI drives come in 147 & 300 GB.

The 15k drive was hot and incredibly noisy. You're sniffing glue if you think U320 SCSI is going to give you performance anywhere close to 6Gbps SATA and a modern SSD. It isn't 2005 any more.

Western Digital's Raptor SATA and Seagate's Cheetah 10K.6 SCSI hard drives were tested for I/O performance using command queuing in servers and across different RAID arrays. Command queuing is the ...

Should buyers be put off if SATA's failure rate is less than six years, while the failure rate of a SCSI or Fibre Channel device may be up to 15 years? After all, do you really keep drives in ...

With SATA and SAS, resellers will be building systems that move data on and off disks at twice the speed of the previous generation of machines that used parallel I/O. Also, while the price ...