Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:56:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Leonard Chung <leonard@ssl.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <20001010105641.A26557@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> <200010100509.XAA18135@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001009190324.028c6d58@yikes.com> Leonard Chung writes: > : Almost all modern IDE and SCSI drives use the same drive mechanism between > : them, so their reliability is the same. > > I've had way more problems with IDE drives going south than SCSI. > Most of the IDE drives still are 5400rpm, while most scsi drives run > at 7200 or 10000. The low end of scsi is higher than the low end of > IDE. The low end of IDE redefines junk. > This seems true of most things you can buy. If IBM and Seagate are among the high-end, what brands would you avoid? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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