Hi John I have *not* said anything like that.
IDE drives of any brand are not meant to be used 24 hours a day. (just spinning or reading/writing) please do a internet research for yourself and look at the specifications and mean time between failure (MFTB). *Recommended* running time for IDE drives is about 3 weeks in a month or 75%. If you understand German, you can have a look at www.heise.de, the German Computer magazine CT, if you don't find anything, let me know, then I will do it for you and all the others :-) Of course you can use IDE drives in a RAID system, recent servers come with that too, you can even hot plug IDE/SATA drives now. It all depends on your needs and the money in your pockets. I hope that helps Markus >>Given that, I would be inclined to dismiss any suggestions that IDE >>drives in general, and IBM drives in particular, are unsuitable >>for use in RAID configurations.
