Re: SCSI vs SATA

>> SATAII brute forces itself through some of its performance, for
>> example 16MB write cache on each drive.
>
> sure but for any serious usage one either wants to disable that
> cache(and rely on tagged command queuing or how that is called in SATAII

Why? Assuming we have a BBU, why would you turn off the cache?

> world) or rely on the OS/raidcontroller implementing some sort of
> FUA/write barrier feature(which linux for example only does in pretty
> recent kernels)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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