[rescue] Netapp

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:50:24PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> Only one IDE device per chanel can talk at the same time.  If you have a
> smart controller, and only place one drive per chanel, then IDE isn't that
> bad.  The only remaining problem then is the fact that most IDE drives are
> the ones that didn't pass quality to be scsi.  Or so I'm told.

Well, that can't be the case with a company like Maxtor, which until they
acquired Quantum only made IDE drives.

However, the duty cycle IS different.  Most IDE drives are/were targeted to
be at most run 12 hours per day.  SCSI drives have to do duty in a server,
where they might be on continuously for many months at a time.  

That being said, my IDE drives that have been running continuously for over
a year and a half in my colo'd server hvae never given me a problem.

Just stay away from WD (worst drives) products.

./patrick