From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 5 15:14: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp44-21.dis.org [216.240.44.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0390537B403 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f65MRK902192; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107052227.f65MRK902192@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Michael VanLoon Cc: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:15:15 PDT." <36F7B20351634E4FBFFE6C6A216B30D54C5A@ecx1.edifecs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:27:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > While there is obviously a great deal of marketing (FUD) involved in this > article, it is based on some elements of truth. For one thing, it confirms > that SCSI drives are, in fact, made to higher standards. I don't see any "confirmation" in this at all. I see a lot of opinion, and some unrepresentative (and uncited) numbers, but nothing I'd base any sort of decision on. > Whether that justifies the cost, of course, is a totally separate issue... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] > > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:27 PM > > To: Michael VanLoon > > Cc: 'hardware@freebsd.org' > > Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take > > > > > > > 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... > > > > -- > > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message