[rescue] Netapp

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I've had IDE drives going for years on end.  I think(hope?) in this day
and age, the IDE drive makers are realizing that an increasing number of
people leave their computers on all the time.

I actually have quite a number of WD drives (mostly or all scsi) that have
arrive in different computers.  Quite a number of them are from old Suns.
Mostly they just sit in a stack though.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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