From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 11:20:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5306737B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g06JJwc01450; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:19:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <003101c196e7$22763af0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Scott Mitchell" , "Kevin Golding" Cc: "Cliff Sarginson" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20020105195536.27073ca2.johann@broadpark.no> <20020105170230.636999bb.matthew@starbreaker.net> <20020106071439.GE1003@raggedclown.net> <0a5b01c19683$d1087880$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020106121009.A338@localhost> <4JD6R5A1lFO8EwPI@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <20020106142306.C338@localhost> Subject: Re: Parts I recommend (formerly "Workstation and server-market") Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:19:59 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott writes: > All of our workstations are left on permanently, > although the drives won't be doing much for half > the day... they still die more often than the SCSI > drives. Which is fine, really -- the SCSI drives > cost a lot more so I expect them to last longer :-) Manufacturers design and build better drives for SCSI, so they tend to last longer, but there is nothing inherent in SCSI itself that makes SCSI drives better, noisier, or whatever. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message