thus Greg Thomas spake:
On 8/16/06, Ioan Nemes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/17 9:25 am >>>
> We switched from SCSI to SATA, and have seen no significant
difference in
> reliability ....
You didn't looked hard enugh!
> .... and a whole lot of savings in $'s.
Not on the long term, very bad purchasing decision!
> But we don't buy the cheapest POS drive at the lowest pricepoint
> on pricewatch.com either.
Don't confuse technology with cost!
> In short, the SCSI is better theory may be true for a short while
longer,
> but is more likely just the result of inertia, and bad experiencese
with
> cheap crappy IDE drives on crappy controllers, not quality
components.
Go away and do your homework first! Or better, get a job in
marketing!
Interesting. A bunch of venom and not a single fact.
there are facts, but there are no number. "get the numbers yourself" as
an implicite message.
I work for a
company that has more employees than the population of your fair city,
that's certainly no reference. M$ has almost 60,000 employees, this
company never had a single product that was of some worth. (or did i
miss something?). McKinsey consists of 6,000 managers and lawyers --
biggest cluster of dumbness on the planet. Halliburton? well, um...
we use plenty of SATA in mission critical applications,
yeah, and having two hot spares for each drive in use. welcome to
resource and energy waste land.
we use SATA for storage of redundant data only; system and primary
storage is SCSI, and it's cheaper than using SATA and having trouble all
the time.
and I really
don't think that's going to change.
but that doesn't really affect a single person on the planet outside
your company (that is, as long as you're not into nuclear power plants
or something; if so, there's education necessary).
SCSI is not only far more reliable, it consists a far more sophisticated
protocol underlying. there are reasons why a porsche is slightly more
expensive than a (hey, what's the crappiest car you have in the US?
Mercedes Benz E-class? ;)
Greg
timo :)
