[rescue] hard drives for sparc10?

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Jan 19 13:40:39 CST 2005


On Wednesday 19 January 2005 11:17, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Shirker <shirker at mooli.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Peter Corlett wrote:
> >> Three 120 GB ATA drives with SCSIDE converters are going to be
> >> more reliable,
> >
> > That's debatable. IDE drives are built down to a price, not up to a
> > specification.
>
> And your beloved SCSI disks are any different?

If nothing else, they're price is much higher for the same amount of 
storage.  Usually (not always) that means that they don't cut as many 
corners on making them cost less to produce.

My $0.02

Pat
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