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@Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:41:55 +0200
Subject: Re: SCSI-vs-IDE
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htravis{at}attglobal.net schreef:

>Answering: 
>        Davey Brain   ' message of:
>        10/21/03  at 03:14 AM, 
>        About:SCSI-vs-IDE
>|http://hardware.devchannel.org/hardwarechannel/03/10/20/1953249.shtml?tid=20&tid=38&tid=49>
>
>Speed aside, I'd suggest one think about reliability. Sure, when your
>40 gig ide drive is covered by warranty w/i a year, you'll be able to
>replace it with a 120 gig for under $100. And how much will the
>downtime and crash cost you?
>
>  
>

Same applies to scsi. A friend here saw his IBM DNES 18 Giga going nuts 
after merely 2 years. And I know about a few others too.

>I'd love to know how many bytes are read and written in the commercial
>world by a SCSI drive compared to the expectated duty of the Maxtor 40
>gig 7200RPM 
>  
>
That said it must be admitted the Maxtor scsi (formerly Quantum) are of 
better quality, but also, the same applies to their IDE disks.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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