SCSI still has a higher MTBF than IDE by a significant margin. Regardless of the size of a business, they don't like hardware failure.
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > True. But as I stated, most SMB(Small/Medium Business) never put that > much demand on a system. SCSI is overkill for them. > > On Friday 24 May 2002 18:50, Net Llama! wrote: > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > > > On Friday 24 May 2002 08:43, Net Llama! wrote: > > > > IDE RAID is *garbage*. If you're going to use hardware RAID, > > > > use SCSI, or don't bother. > > > > > > Not true. > > > IDE drives are reliable and fast enough now that most SMB will be > > > very happy with their performance. > > > > *NO* IDE drives have performance eqivalent to a SCSI drive. IDE is > > not designed to be able to produce a sustainable data transfer > > rate, as is the case with SCSI. > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
