On 17-Nov-05, at 2:50 PM, Alex Turner wrote:
Just pick up a SCSI drive and a consumer ATA drive.
Feel their weight.
You don't have to look inside to tell the difference.
At one point stereo manufacturers put weights in the case just to
make them heavier.
The older ones weighed more and the consumer liked heavy stereos.
Be careful what you measure.
Dave
Alex
On 11/16/05, David Boreham <david_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suggest you read this on the difference between enterprise/SCSI
and
desktop/IDE drives:
http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/
D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf
This is exactly the kind of vendor propaganda I was talking about
and it proves my point quite well : that there's nothing specific
relating
to reliability that is different between SCSI and SATA drives
cited in that
paper.
It does have a bunch of FUD such as 'oh yeah we do a lot more
drive characterization during manufacturing'.
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