[rescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #3230 - 21 msgs

[Skeezics Boondoggle]

Phil Schilling <phils at gcstech.net> wrote:

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> Oversimplified but I am tired and really pissed over the half information in
> comparison of the two.
> 
> IDE - Workstation only
> SCSI - High End Workstation and Servers

what's *extremely* frustrating is that scsi chipsets have been around
forever, and by now they ought to be cheap to produce in quantity.  i've
suspected for years now that the wide gap in price between scsi and ide is
almost entirely artificial.  they take the same bloody hda and slap
virtually the same physical connector on the back and a nearly identical
controller on it, where the ide version might have $3.89 worth of fewer
parts on it than the scsi version, and one retails for $100 and the other
for $289.

and they'll keep doing it because we'll keep paying for it -- the benefits
of using scsi still justify it, even though it chafes when you see the
wide pricing gaps when the bloody part number differs by one letter...

hell, i bet they "bin out" drives just like they do chips - if, for some
reason, a 10k rpm drive assembly destined for a scsi or fcal build can't
meet spec, they drop it down to 7200rpm and pop the ide board on it.  
ta-da!


> 23 years of this profession and have never installed or maintained a IDE
> based server and have no intention of ever doing so.

hee hee.  me neither, but then, i still believe that in general "you get
what you pay for."  and i'm grateful every day that i've been lucky enough
to work in shops where i could maintain high standards.  :-)

but i too am a scsi snob, i guess, since my house is 100% wintel free...  
there, patience is the key.  wait long enough, and everything is cheap.  
:-)  i keep a list of things that i'll have someday, if i'm patient:  a
mac cube (to sit next to the NeXT cubes, of course), the new Xserve, a sun
E10k... oh yes, in time, they will all be mine.  heh heh.

-- chris