[rescue] Re: u5>u30?!?

[Ken Caruso]

I am guessing he is speaking of IDE drives, which depending the intended
use are probably not fast enough for heavy server stuff, in which case
you probably shouldnt be using a u5 anyways.

But yeah just spent $120 bucks for an 80gig (drool) ide drive to stick
in my u5 at home.

We have 5 firewalls that are u5 with ide drives and we have had disks
die in two of them in the past three years. Which I consider to be right
on par with IDE disks.


Ken

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 18:21, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:13:44PM -0700, Robert Novak wrote:
> > Drives for the U5 may be cheaper, so the costs may balance out. And 32meg
> > dimms for the U5 are worthless these days so they're easier to find. 
> > 
> > For some environments a U5 is better. It's smaller and lighter, for one.
> > Where space/mass/drive price is minimally significant, yes, a U30 is
> > better.
> 
> Excuse me, but how are U5 drives cheaper than any other machine?  If 
> anything, they are worse for the U5 since a SCSI controller must be loaded
> first.  
> 
> I suppose they are smaller, but they have a large foot print.
> 
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