[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDEHARDWARE RAID

[Tim H.]

In the midst of the smoke, I seem to remember google running on IDE drives, i per channel, 2 per box, some boxes with extra card, 4 drives.  Maybe I was dreaming.

Tim

On Wed, 15 May 2002 21:29:21 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> 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
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