Author Topic: eye-skuzzy AKA iSCSI (Read 230 times)

1K0N · « **on:** June 10, 2004, 07:13:50 AM »

New Data Storage Standard iSCSI

http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/040608/tech_1.html
It's not a pleasant sounding name -- "eye-skuzzy." But iSCSI, or Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, might redefine the landscape of the $50 billion data storage industry.

IF drunk at an AH con I might use the term Aye... Skuzzy..

IKON

LePaul · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2004, 09:31:32 AM »

I say this and when I was pricing servers, I wonder what's the better bang for the buck...IDE drives or sticking with SCSI. SCSI drives are always more expensive yet faster. But the IDE's are not far behind...and if these are setup in a RAID, its certainly less money to replace an IDE drive.

Still wondering what's best.

1K0N · « **Reply #2 on:** June 10, 2004, 09:54:22 AM »

IF you have apps that require SCSI speeds then it used to be you had to purchase SCSI drives, But with SATA and current IDE speeds/$'s and other storage options including shrinking IT budgets, IDE or SATA is a worthy choice. Silicon Image and other storage companies are releasing Affordable external SATA hot swappable Raid enclosures or units "whatever they call it"
An idea is to use a PCI express controller to link the external SATA raid device because its trendy and creates projects...
And very fast too..

IKON

LePaul · « **Reply #3 on:** June 10, 2004, 10:02:43 AM »

Good info

Over the years Ive shrunk down from large servers to towers on down to rack mount (1U/2U). Rather than a 7ft h x 4ft wide steel shelving unit taking up a wall, a relay rack can hold much more efficiently. Most of the servers Ive seen for the smaller cases are multiple IDEs with various Promise RAID configs.

SCSIs are solid. One of my server is using a pair of 4gb Ultra Wide SCSI's that have worked solidly for 4 years. Conversely, my home game machine has fried two high end Western Digital ATA 133 hard drives in 18 months. My worry is the qualty component is quite up there with the IDEs as it seems to be with SCSI drives.

But, everyone's mileage may vary

1K0N · « **Reply #4 on:** June 10, 2004, 10:16:54 AM »

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Originally posted by LePaul

SCSIs are solid. One of my server is using a pair of 4gb Ultra Wide SCSI's that have worked solidly for 4 years. Conversely, my home game machine has fried two high end Western Digital ATA 133 hard drives in 18 months. My worry is the qualty component is quite up there with the IDEs as it seems to be with SCSI drives.
But, everyone's mileage may vary

We had a Dell server we purchased in 97 with several
scsi drives of various sizes that ran as a File server until december 2003.. Finally late last year at the end of the sales quarter "not a good time to be loosing drives" the drives started acting squirely.. But they ran flawlessly for almost 8 years thru brown outs and virus attacks and handled the local pig usage "storage pigs" ....
When it was all over I said goodbye old friends "sniff sniff" it was a good 8 years "sniff sniff"

IKON

AcId · « **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2004, 10:49:06 AM »

Thats all part of the decision making process, price/performance/reliability I work at HP in the Storage division and am part of a couple projects. One being an iSCSI implementation of a current product and another that is Fibre attached SATA and or SCSI drives in the same enclosure. Ultimately what it comes down to is the applications needs combined with how much availability do you need as well as budget. With soo man choices now it becomes a real balancing act trying to choose the right hardware.