[K12OSN] Just got approval
Paul Vittorino
wiz8 at mac.com
Thu Mar 4 09:13:04 UTC 2004
On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 08:34 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:59, David Trask wrote:
>> k12osn at redhat.com writes:
>>> SATA appears to be much better that PATA, but as far as I can tell
>>> fast
>>> SCSI drives are still the best deal for mid-to-large terminal
>>> servers.
>>
>> Not only that I've seen some results that support that SCSI drives
>> simply
>> are built to last longer. Generally speaking SCSI drives are built
>> for
>> server environments....hence they're meant to sit and spin a high
>> speeds
>> day in and day out. No denying that they're also considerably more
>> expensive, but sometimes ya' gotta' weigh the "what ifs"
>
> That was probably the case a few years ago, but now I think
> nearly all manufacturers take exactly the same mechanical
> parts and slap on a different logic board. There is still
> the bottleneck with head position and since IDE is cheaper
> you'll probably buy bigger drives that make this even worse.
>
I would actually tend to agree with David here. My sole evidence is
the warranty of the drives. Maxtor has a 1 year warranty for their IDE
& SATA drives but a 5 year warranty on their SCSI drives.
Just a thought,
Paul
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