Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:47:52 -0400 From: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> To: "Michael VanLoon" <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take Message-ID: <001701c1065c$edb42a90$0d2d2d0a@battleship> References: <200107052227.f65MRK902192@mass.dis.org>
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Any decent mfg will post their MTBF numbers so you can compare them on a per drive basis without using broad generalizations. I found the remark about only 4 IDE drives allowed especially amusing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Michael VanLoon" <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM> Cc: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 18:27 Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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