Hahahaa, ok humour me a second, where do you get top of the line IDE is faster than SCSI? Are you comparing to that old SCSI drive you bought 10 years ago?
Also, Reliability is not the same as a waranty, I don't care if they can replace my disk, if it fails that's down time and possible data loss...no warranty can make up for that! Mark Lane a �crit: > At 12:51 PM 9/27/02, you wrote: > >> hdparm allows you to pass parameters to the hard drive... :) >> >> Things that (for example) turn on or off: >> DMA >> Multi sector IO >> Standby Timeouts >> PIO mode >> DMA mode >> Benchmarking >> etc... >> >> Some things work great. Some depend on the drive/controller you have, >> and >> some seem like there're just there to teach people to RTFM. >> >> On a desktop, go nuts playing with them. On a server... Give your >> head a >> shake for buying IDE drives, > > > Why? Top of the line IDE drives are faster than SCSI now and much > cheaper. (As long as you stick with one per channel) They come with 3 > year warranties. So they don't support command queuing like SCSI. Unless > you have extra money to spend SCSI is no longer a big advantage over > IDE. In fact, I can build very fast IDE raids for than the price of a > single SCSI card and Large SCSI Drive ( =>73 Gigs ). The IDE raid array > will provide command queuing and blow the SCSI away on performance. > > No SCSI being a requirement of a Server is no longer valid advice. The > drives may be better but you pay too a steep premium. >
