[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDEHARDWARE RAID

Wed May 15 20:15:30 CDT 2002

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:59:46PM -0500, Phil Schilling wrote:
> "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> IDE - Workstation only
> SCSI - High End Workstation and Servers
> 
> 23 years of this profession and have never installed or maintained a IDE based
> server and have no intention of ever doing so.
> 
> Phil

SCSI snobbery at its finest.

The guts of the drive are the same.  They come off the same production
line.  Some get IDE electronics and connectors, some get SCSI.

Keep on paying 2 to 3 times as much for roughly the same performance
when dealing with 7200RPM drives.  When it gets cheap enough, 10K and
15K drives will show up on IDE.  They will have the same performance
characteristics as a Cheetah.

The folks at Seagate thank you for your opinion.  Their margins are a
lot higher when you choose SCSI.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net