JU wrote:
>
> Hi Jon!
>
> Jon Harrison wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:58:10 +0100 (CET), Daniela Engert wrote:
> >
> >> There are multiple Maxtor series with 320GB models, neither of which
> >> I'd recommend. I'd go with
> >>
> >> Hitachi 7K500 series
> >> Seagate 7200.10 series
> >> Samsung T166 series
> >
> > It's been an interesting thread.
> > How about some scsi drive comments? Or has scsi been abandoned?
>
> Too expensive. They may be more stable and live longer that the cheap EIDE
> (PATA/SATA) drives but for that price of a one 300GB (SCA or LVD) SCSI
> drive I
> can buy three 500 GB Samsung T166 SATA II drives or five 300 GB
> Samsung T166
> SATA II drives (which make a nice raid system by the way ;) ).
>
> Ok the SCSI drives run with 10000 rpm instead of 7200 rpm but that
> doesn't count
> here.
> Sorry, but the difference in price is totally wrong these days.
>
> In my other server I've got 3 IBM DCAS 4.3 GB (SCSI-2) and one IBM
> DDRS with 9.1
> GB (SCSI-UW) running 24x7 for 6 to 9 years. So far no problems.
> Back then the price was only a little bit above EIDE drives. With the
> extra
> performance and the better quality (even if the DCAS line wasn't very
> good at
> that) this was ok.
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Comparing to those fairly expensive SCSI drives of the ages gone by, I'd
say SCSI had already given the mid-lower end SCSI a very good run for
the money.


With the insane desire for increase capacity, the density also
increases, when density increases, the amount of data flaying past the
Read/Write head per second also increases. Which the old DDRS can barely
make 20MB/s, while IDE HDD today easily does 50MB/s. If you are REALLY
worried about reliability, buy two plus a mirror system that does RAID 1
for you. This will make sure it will be damned reliable, and still be a
lot cheaper than SCSI of similar capacity. Way cheaper...

I'm starting to think that, SATA array with SAS controller is gonna make
life difficult for those SCSI and SAS drive manufacturing departments of
all those drive makers.



 
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