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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:06:04 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Choosing Serial ATA RAID 5 controller for FBSD 4.9
Message-ID:  <403F5CDC.5020906@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <1077894043.10415.501.camel@panda>
References:  <20040225200421.0BC4443D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <15430000.1077893552@durian.pingpong.net> <1077894043.10415.501.camel@panda>

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Hi,

Lanny Baron wrote:

 > For every 1 SCSI disk failure, you will get about 10 ide disk 
failures.
 >
 > The MTBF for SCSI drives is ~ 50% of ide.

I think, it is the other way around.

The MTBF of a SCSI drive is some 1 200 000 h while an IDE drive 
comes with 300 000 h or less.

Erich



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