{"id":10165,"date":"2009-12-01T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2009-12-01T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:06:53","slug":"how-hyper-v-scsi-is-really-ide-and-it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10165","title":{"rendered":"How Hyper-V SCSI is Really IDE And It Doesn\u2019t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Armstrong has done a good job at <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/HAqR\" target=\"_blank\">explaining<\/a> how it doesn\u2019t matter if you use IDE or SCSI disks in your VM.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that under the hood there\u2019s no real difference between them.&#160; And as you probably already know, the real decision is if you are using SAS or SATA disks underneath the virtualisation layer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:87613022-d5af-44e4-ae79-e9216c865893\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Armstrong has done a good job at explaining how it doesn\u2019t matter if you use IDE or SCSI disks in your VM. 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