[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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