I'm looking into setting up a few SCSI drives for server use. Question is pretty basic so hopefully someone can answer this quickly. I'm looking at all the different types of cards and am unsure about one thing. How dependant is the bus width on performance. I noticed intel has a PCI Express 8X SCSI card and of course the alternative is PCI or PCI-X by intel or adaptec. Would there be any measureable performance difference (advantage or disadvantage) caused by using one over the other? Or would PCI/PCI-X be just as efficient for every day use as PCI-Express? How bus dependant are raid cards? The server will be running at most 10 15k drives.
Question is a bit specialized since SCSI isnt exactly popular amongst forum users so my hopes arent too high of an answer, but any insight would certainly be appriciated.
Question is a bit specialized since SCSI isnt exactly popular amongst forum users so my hopes arent too high of an answer, but any insight would certainly be appriciated.
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