[geeks] 32 Gig 1.6" SCA drives......

[Andrew Weiss]

You can also tell when you have the chance to open them up.  I open many 
dead non-warrantied drives.

The SCSI mech's are so much nicer... everything feels like it's made of 
higher quality material from the platters to the armatures.

For fun, open a Maxtor IDE drive.... Extreme cheapness, esp. the earlier 
models.

Andrew

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 08:49 PM, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>>> That's what you get for using IDE.  I haven't had a *single* problem
>> with > an Ultrastar.
>>
>> Nevermind the fact that the mechanisms themselves are exactly the
>> same, with the only difference being the controlling electronics.
>
> That isn't strictly the case.  When the first three letters of the part
> numbers are the same, the drive mechanism is the same.  There are 
> actually
> very few drives which share the same mechanics between IDE and SCSI in
> IBM's lineup.  There is much more sharing between SCSI <-> FC-AL <-> 
> SSA.
> There is very little between these three and IDE.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
>
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>
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