How to tell if I have SATA or SCSI?

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I want to add a REV drive to my server. They offer both SCSI and SATA.
Is one better than the other? If I just get the SCSI will I be safe?
How do I tell if my machine is usuing SATA? Thanks
 
SCSI is not normally built-in to most standard XP PCs. Check with your
system/motherboard manual so as to check to see if you have either SCSI or
SATA.


BTW: XP is not a "true" server system. You might be running either
IDE/ATAPI (PATA) or Serial IDE (SATA) drives already.
 
A SCSI connector looks somehting like a parallel port connect, big, bulky.
An SATA connector is much smaller and thinner, vaguely like USB, but it will
nit fit in a USB hole.

SATA is mostly for inside a PC, althouigh I have heard recently of external
SATA. SCSI works inside or outside. Ultimately, SCSI can be faster, but is
usually more expensive.

Have you considered USB 2.0 for an external hard drive? In theory it is
slower than SCSI or SATA, but in practice the interface may not be what is
limiting file transfers.

By the way, check the history of IOMEGA drives (ZIP, JAZ, Peerless). Except
for ZIP, which is still sold, their removeable media drives tend to become
obsolete very fast, and their price/Gig tend to be fairly high.
 
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