RHB wrote:
On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 02:44 PM, James Grubic wrote:A couple of weeks back, someone mentioned they preferred the SCSI to the ATA drives as they lasted longer. I need an internal SCSI drive about 9 GB would be super.
Where can I find one that's not 86 GB and costs $789.00. Prefer Seagate or Lacie OR "best of all" an IBM. The one in my PTP is getting noisy and the picture on the monitor is getting shaky. I'm backing everything up, but it's got me nervous. Need another one for my highly modified PCP240. RHB
I completely disagree with this. I also used to think that SCSI was king, primarily because it had its own controller and freed up the CPU, but every major and catastrophic failure I've had has been a SCSI drive, particularly the Ultra type.
I really think it's worth it to buy an PCI ATA card and put a Maxtor drive in there.
James
I find it funny, that you would mention Maxtor. I used to buy the computers and peripherals for the machines that sort the mail. We bought Maxtor, as they had more capacity and the fastest seek rate ... at the time. The failure rate was terrific.
Talking with the engineers, I was told, "We had to go with Maxtor because of the specs we had to meet in the contract. But, Maxtor is always on the leading edge (Bleeding Edge?) of technology ... and their failure rate bears it out. "
We were shipping them back and forth between the vendor and the USPS sites like they were Porno Flicks. Out of 435 Multiline "B" machines, I think we had 45 spare hard drives to meet the problem.
I have a Maxtor USB/Firewire external hard disk and have had no problems, but then, it only has a few hours on it. I use it for back up and since USB cards are about $10.00, I've put them in my two PTP's , PCPs and eMac. Then back them up to the disk. Makes it easier to transfer data (CheckBook & Stock history) between Fort Worth and my other PCP in CA . With all these and all my chillins and gran chillins PowerComputing machines, That's why a need a better source for Pram Batteries.
BTW, I have a New Sonnet ATA PCI card and a NEW ATA hard drive, both still in the box(for the last two years). I just don't want to mess with it now. Plan to put it in the PTP that has 1gb ram and all the goodies. (I've two PTP's)
RHB You never see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrist's office!
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