[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDE HARDWARE RAID

Wed May 15 12:19:01 CDT 2002

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:56:23AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:45, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Ever tried to find an IDE drive with a 10 year warranty?  

Who would run a 10 year old drive in a production server?  IF you
calculate the interest on the extra bucks you spent, you could just
buy a new drive after 5 or 6 years.

> IDE is certainly going to be cheaper, but I'd be willing to bet that you
> could put together an U160 SCSI setup with only 4 drives that would
> knock the socks off of this thing in terms of access speed and data
> throughput, just based on having faster drives available.  

10K and 15K RPM drives are coming from what I have heard.

Cordially  

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net