I would want RAID-1 for mirroring ..but SATA costs << SCSCI costs and some say SATA is about as good as SCSCI now.
For single- and few-disk performance, yes. The trick is that SCSI disks are essentially built much tougher in many ways and so they *are* superior in an enterprise environment... it's not just about speed.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON LINUX and SATA-RAID specifically what Distro are they using with what MoBO and chipset.
Personally, I don't worry so much about mobo. Just use something really stable. 3Ware for RAID cards, RAID-1 at a minimum, RAID-5 if at *all* possible, and RAID-10 (a RAID-5 array built from individual pairs of disks in RAID-1 arrays) when I can afford it. With RAID-10, you'd have to lose at least four drives to lose the array and you could theoretically lose half your drives + one (one from each pair and the second drive in one pair) and still be online.
And when I figure it out, using LVM to manage the partitions on that array will likely make my life much easier. <grin>
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
