[rescue] Re: Re: u5>u30?!?

[Robert Novak]

On 8 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:26, Ken Caruso wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think Rob is a SCSI snob (I wish I were l33t enough to be
> a SCSI snob).

I am a SCSI snob when I have the resources, but I don't have the official
Joshua blinders yet. I know that not everyone needs SCSI. If you're just
using the machine as an X terminal, for example, the difference between
SCSI and IDE is negligible. DNS on a small (<1000 domains) nameserver
probably doesn't exceed 33MB/sec either.

Anyone who thinks every computer system for every purpose and audience
requires SCSI... doesn't have enough practical and pragmatic knowledge
about system building to speak on the matter (or they have way too much
money to throw away, in which case my paypal address is my email address).

Darn, I fed the troll again. 

> > But yeah just spent $120 bucks for an 80gig (drool) ide drive to stick
> > in my u5 at home.
> 
> I think you got shafted, I'm seeing them for $80...  

They're about $100 at CSC's retail side I think, 90 day warranty. 73gig
SCSI is only $300 at hitechcafe.com these days (I think $300 > $100 these
days). 

> > 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.
> 
> Mirrored, I hope?

I had more system boards than disks fail on my U5s at my Big Corporate
Job. Part of that was that my lab people ran stacks of them with 3 qfe
cards running heavy traffic, with not much ventilation, but still...
had more SCSI disks fail than IDE and I had about equal numbers of them
deployed.

Rob

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