[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Kevin]

While this is true, one of the major reasons i deal with SCSI
only, is the fact that SCSI drives, overall, seem to be more
reliable (yes i know that SCSI drives can and do fail as well, so
please don't inundate my inbox with tons of anecdotal evidence to
the contrary.)

I *believe* this increase in reliability is due to the fact that
these days, most SCSI hardware is destined for servers and real
workstation class hardware.  If SCSI had been the taken
the same "commodity" path as that of IDE, i believe that while we
would have better hardware for other reasons, i also believe that
the reliability of SCSI that hardware might be significantly less
so than it is today.  And even though i am about to test out some
SATA equipment, the aforementioned reason (and others) still puts
it in the same class as IDE for me.

Just my two cents,
/KRM

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:59:17 -0600 (MDT)
Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Jeff Cole wrote:
> > Ubid.com. I scored a 160gb drive for $99 + shipping  from
> > there last week.
> 
> I got a 200GB (with 8MB cache) for my xbox a while back for
> $120. It really just makes me sick that when Wintel boxes were
> looking for a HD format to replace MFM/RLL they reinvented the
> wheel and went with such a piece of shit technology like IDE
> when SCSI was so widely available.  It took quite a while for
> available IDE drives to catch up in size to SCSI. I had a 1.6GB
> drive (RZ27) in my 386 (and then 486) when the largest IDE
> drive was in the 400MB range.  I still believe IDE set us back
> and we'd be enjoying SCSI drives in the 300-400GB range for
> under $200 if PCs had gone SCSI in the first place.
> 
> Sorry, I'll stop ranting now.
> 
> -DanD
> 
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