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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Jason Boxman wrote:

>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.
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>Yeah, that's neat.
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>>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).
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>>The SCSI drives do multiple reads/writes, so are better suited for Linux, I
>>believe.
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>>Correct me, if I am wrong.
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>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.
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>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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New on the list, can't resist. I have believed for several years that 
modern HDD's (IDE vs. SCSI) are identical as far as platters, motors, 
bearings, heads, etc. Only diffs are in the board & hookup's. This is 
based on some time spent several years scouring Seagate's site for 
drives for some SGI's, and noticing that MANY basic part #'s (as well as 
descriptions of components) for IDE & SCSI drives were identical except 
for 1 letter which distinguished SCSI or IDE. Thus, there should be no 
discernible difference in longevity, suitability for Linux or not, etc. 
True/false/other ?

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	William A. Mahaffey III
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