On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:33:56 -0700, you wrote:
Mike,
On Saturday 08 October 2005 12:02, Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:41:16 +0200, you wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 14:33 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote:
I used to use exclusively SCSI drives, but the price/performance breakpoint just doesn't warrant it anymore, IMHO. If you use a decent IDE drive, don't accept the defaults for DMA speed, and set up your cache properly, the performance is close enough. Not the same - but none of my clients have money to burn.
What about SATA disks?
I tend more toward the paranoid about disk systems... SATA doesn't have enough of a track record to make me happy about using them. Ask me again in a year.
I'm not sure I see the logic in this.
The comman protocols are identical to IDE (just as IEEE 1394 / FireWire command structure is identical to SCSI), so much of the drive electronics and firmware will be shared between IDE drives (from a given manufacturer and of a given design family) and their SATA counterparts. The actual drive hardware (the electromechanical parts) is independent of the bus used to connect the drive to the system and so the reliability of the mechanical portions has nothing to do with SATA vs. IDE vs. SCSI vs. USB vs. FireWire (etc.).
What is it you don't trust?
Mike-
Randall Schulz
I didn't have any hard data to point to, but see the other messages in this thread... I just like to wait a bit and let others bleed on the cutting edge, if they're going to. And by the way, I went thru the same (justified in retrospect) procedure when the shift from MFM, RLL, and ESDI drives to IDE drives occurred. And FWIW, Maxtor drives are pure crap lately - I've blown thru two dozen warranty replacements in a bit over a year. Seagates, particularly the 400 Gb's, are holding up well. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.