On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:19:53 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI >> disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically >> identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are >> different. >> > > I ran this past my fiancé, Eric Mudama, who works in the hard drive > business, and here's what he had to say. Hope it helps. > > [quote] > Okay, here are the facts: > > 1. mechanically, current generation IDE and SCSI drives are *not* > identical, not even close. The SCSI HDA, required to spin at 10k, > 15k, or 22k RPM is a *much* different beast. They may have been > identical back 4-5 years ago when Seagate was shipping 7200 RPM IDE > and SCSI drives, but those drives dont exist anymore. The WD Raptor > (10k SATA) has no equivalent SCSI product, so there is still no > common-mechanics IDE/SCSI drive in production today (that I am aware > of).
Thanks, Monique, I'm five years behind the times as usual :) Interesting post, please thank your fiancé for his time -- ....................paul It's working as coded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]