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.

SCSI (small computer system interface) and ATA (advanced technology attachment) are two standards for connecting storage devices to a computer. Traditionally, ATA was cheaper while SCSI was more ...

At the same time, NVMe is built to handle more queues than SAS and SATA at the drive, with 65,000 queues and 65,000 command queue depths possible. This compares to one queue for SAS and SATA, and ...

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 ...