However, what if you know you need better access time or more reliable better
disks (SCSI is still more reliable than SATA in most cases) and want to
invest in 10k or 15k SCSI disks?
I'm not sure I've met anyone who really knew that
rather than believing it on faith ;)
for instance, it's not trivial to argue better SCSI access time in
an environment where you have many disks. I suppose if you actually
have a _single_ thread of IO, you really will always only care about
the latency of that single outstanding op, but that seems pretty exotic.
striping handles multiple streams pretty nicely (even striped journal
devices, if you're doing massive updates...)
reliability is even fuzzier because vendors are such jerks about publishing
their numbers. in the broadest sense, the availability of 5-year warantee,
"raid-edition" SATA disks is kinda sorta equivalent to SCSI. SCSI disks
do sometimes include MTBF specs (1.0-1.4 Mhours, iirc) - SATA is probably
somewhere above 800K hours, though that's somewhat confounded by how you
figure the working load (24x7, 8x5, temperature, etc). and the lack of
numbers from SATA vendors...
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