[Pc_Support] Maxtor 100GB Serial ATA (SATA) drive $99.99 - $65.00rebate

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 21 November 2005 18:30, Whaxiac Patrick wrote:
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> Used SCSI Drives still have warrantees, in many cases; SCSI drives usually
> have 7 years on the warrantees!  I buy off of eBay, and try to get 50 Gb
> drives.  Have several 18 Gb SCSI drives.

Yeah, that's neat.

> The thing is, the SCSI drives are built to run for 7 years,  24 hours a
> day, for 265 days, non-stop!  If you check the boxes and warrantees of most
> IDE drives, they are meant to only run 8 hour days (intermittant duty).
>
> The SCSI drives do multiple reads/writes, so are better suited for Linux, I
> believe.
>
> Correct me, if I am wrong.

SCSI tends to be best when you've got a system with lots of random I/O and 
lots of users.  For single user systems I've had no problems with modern PATA 
drives.  In the future I'll be buying SATA or SATA-II/I/O stuff for my 
personal systems and probably doing 3Ware SATA RAID on my limited multi-user 
servers.

In short, at least for my individual needs SCSI disks, especially new, are too 
expensive for marginal gains over commodity SATA disks.

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Jason Boxman
http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff