I'm looking to make a high capacity NAS for my brother's small business network. I want it to have around 1TB of space. Should I look at SCSI or SATA? I notice Dell is pushing high-capacity SATA disks in their storage servers rather than SCSI. Why is that?
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High-capacity NAS?
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It might relate to SAS(Serial Attached SCSI) as well. It's a SATA style connector so it can handle SATA drives and the SATA based SCSI drives. It's the direction SCSI is heading so that might be what you're seeing. Regular SATA drives are good for bulk storage and the SCSI drives are better for performance.
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1tb isn't high capacity 
What role is this in? Document/media storage, email storage, web server data dump, what? How many users? It's very hard to give reasonable recommendations without an idea of what you're using the equipment for.
What role is this in? Document/media storage, email storage, web server data dump, what? How many users? It's very hard to give reasonable recommendations without an idea of what you're using the equipment for.