On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Well, if you're wanting it to last five years, you'd better buy SCSI > hard drives. Modern IDE kit isn't designed to last any longer than the > lowest warranty period they can get away with. Even the supposed "five > year warranty" SATA drives likely won't reliably last that long -- > cheaper to replace a few percent (since, after all, most of them will > have been thrown out, changed owners or had their warranty card lost by > then) than to make them up to server spec.
I have to agree: SCSI disks just blow away IDE drives in terms of performance under heavy load. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
