You must mean the IBM "DeathStar" series. More than just the 75GXP line had problems. Their SCSI stuff had MAJOR problems too. Way too many IBM drives have died WAY before their time. At one point IBM released a statement saying "please don't use our drives more the 333 hours a month". Essentially a 12 hour day. I'm sorry but not acceptable. What was their excuse for the SCSI failures? Shortly after such high failures began IBM sold 70% of their hard drive manufacturing assets to Hitachi. What's the most reliable drive? Seagate SCSI seem to take the cake. On the IDE side I've always been a Seagate and Maxtor fan though not a fan of the slimline Maxtor drives. WD tends to offer good performance in the begining of their lives but quickly degrade to a slow but reliable drive. Also, speed of the drives, amount of access (read/write), and number of drives in a air starved case add up to a shorter life span. So realistically, IDE can do a darn fine job and last many years when used in the right conditions. :-)
That be all of my thoughts for now, Mr O. --- "Grigsby, Garl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >SCSI disks are built better than their > IDE counterparts. Yes they cost a lot more per GB, but you get > what you pay for. These disks will be seeing a lot of use. > They will be on 24/7/365 for 5 years under steady use. > Sorry, if I seem to be beating this to death, but as far as I > am concerned IDE is not an option. I've seen too many IDE > drives die (remember the IBM 75GXP?) to trust them on > something like a mail server. > > Garl > > _______________________________________________ > EuG-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
