From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 5 14:16:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (fw2.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4980D37B403; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f65LGFn10045; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:16:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mike Smith Cc: Michael VanLoon , "'hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:27:01 PDT." <200107052127.f65LR1901620@mass.dis.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:16:15 +0200 Message-ID: <10043.994367775@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200107052127.f65LR1901620@mass.dis.org>, Mike Smith writes: >> Yet more on this subject... >> >> I thought this was interesting because IBM is widely considered to make the >> best IDE drives in the market right now. >> >> http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/ide_raid.htm > >This reads like a lot of FUD; I'd be embarrassed to be associated with >producing something like this... Considering the margins on SCSI devices, I would be defending my bottom line too... The one crucial bit they leave out is what the 'I' in RAID means :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message