From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 5 14:19:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0157737B405; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f65LJVS35613; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:19:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mike Smith , Michael VanLoon , "'hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take In-Reply-To: <10043.994367775@critter> Message-ID: <20010705141857.A37950-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > >> 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 :-) 'I' is relative. Compare building your own with SCSI disks, even from IBM, relative to buying a small EMC Symmetrix. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message