Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:15:15 -0700 From: Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM> To: "'Mike Smith'" <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "'hardware@freebsd.org'" <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: SCSI vs. IDE -- IBM's take Message-ID: <36F7B20351634E4FBFFE6C6A216B30D54C5A@ecx1.edifecs.com>
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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. 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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