[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDEHARDWARE RAID

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:15:30PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> 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.

It seems to me that rather than use IDE, what we should be doing is 
demanding cheaper SCSI.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd