Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:19:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>, "'hardware@freebsd.org'" <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take Message-ID: <20010705141857.A37950-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <10043.994367775@critter>
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> >> 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
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