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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: Choosing Serial ATA RAID 5 controller for FBSD 4.9
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Hi,

Lanny Baron wrote:

 > For every 1 SCSI disk failure, you will get about 10 ide disk 
failures.
 >
 > The MTBF for SCSI drives is ~ 50% of ide.

I think, it is the other way around.

The MTBF of a SCSI drive is some 1 200 000 h while an IDE drive 
comes with 300 000 h or less.

Erich