From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 10:10:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F6637B40A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20010928171031.HQOF15297.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au> for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:10:31 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010929030312.01e21070@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:09:16 +1000 To: From: Rob B Subject: RE: reliable HDD brand (LONG) In-Reply-To: <001701c14839$06b8e1c0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:17 29/09/2001, Kory Hamzeh wrote: >Why is SCSI more reliable than, say IDE, when SCSI dictates the host >interface? Is the actual data encoding on the platter any more reliable? Is >the drive spindle motor or head servo any more reliable? Traditionally, the second point, although nowadays the mechanisms tend to be shared between SCSI and IDE devices. Rob >I use to run SCSI >exclusively, but I had so much trouble, specially when the Ultra-Wide stuff >came out that I switched to IDE. Other then one problem with the IBM 75GXP >45G, IDE was been more reliable for me than SCSI. > >I agree they are not as fast as IDE. > >Kory > > > In general, if you want reliability, go SCSI, mirroring IDE or, RAID5 IDE > > and have a hot spare. If you want enterprise reliability (which > > you probably > > don't if you were considering IDE drives) get a solid state > > drive. They are > > usually above USD$25,000. Ouch. (These things are also blazing > > fast as far > > as access time--great for that "special" 5% of files on a big file server) > > > > > > Charles N Burns -- The Californians are an idle thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. This is random quote 906 of a collection of 1161 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message