On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 02:40, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - they > > have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time it takes > > for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding what to buy > > a PITA :( > > No, I'd take issue with that, hitting on all HD mfrs in general, it has > more to do with the technology, and the focus of the market it's aimed at. > In general, SCSI drives have a far better rep than the IDE drives. That > probably has to do with the market sector they focus on. With one > exception (a heat problem I probably must blame on myself doing some > learning) I've had no problems with scsi drives, and I beat hell out of > them.
They sure do have a better rep. but they DO cost 4x as much :) (Not including a controller) > I guess if you *must* run IDE, then run raid arrays. If you don't run > either, then you can't complain if you buy the cheapest and don't get the > best reliability. Indeed, though in general I find it pretty hard to justify SCSI prices in the particular application we have. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
