Hello SPM users.
This quite off topic, but I was hoping you could give your opinion or share
your experiences with me.
We are thinking about upgrading our processing workstation. And we are
thinking of buying RAID5. The question is, if the CPU speed and RAM is not
an issue (I think we will get a cluster of a few BLADE servers), between
SATA or SCSI RAID5, would any of them be significantly faster than the
other, or would any of them be so slow that there would be no point in
getting a lot of computational power? Also, given it is SATA or SCSI RAID5
and ethernet bandwidth is not an issue, would setting it up as a local hard
drive or in a network attached storage system be significantly faster?
This is all related to doing usual fMRI preprocessing and analysis.
Thank you.
Regards,
Renat.
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