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What is the difference between SCSI and IDE?

April 26, 2017difference IDE SCSI

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What is the difference between SCSI and IDE?

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The primary difference is that SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) has a processor built into the drive which allows for faster read / writes. IDE drives rely on the CPU. SCSI may be beneficial to you if you are planning to run a database or other resource intensive application. An IDE drive is suitable for standard web serving. RAID Level 5 provides you with the redundancy necessary to recover from a single hard drive failure. RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 hard drives and distributes parity among all of the drives to be used to recover data. Because of the space required to store parity information, you lose the disk space of one drive in order to stripe data across the drives.