At 08:32 AM 8/30/03 -0700, Philip Aker wrote: >Compared to SCSI, I find ATA drives to be unreliable. With OS 8-9, it >was guaranteed that the one I have would crumble every 10-12 months >whereas the older SCSI ones I have just keep on going.
I never keep daily-use drives more that 10-12 months anyway -- always upgrading to bigger and faster ones. :) I have 120GB drives in my machines at the moment (they were on sale for $100 at Staples a few months ago). I pull my old drives and put them in portable trays for long-term storage of older projects. Even so, other than my server's drive (which is a 5yo 2GB drive), my oldest drive is no more than two years old; the smaller ones aren't good for much in practical terms these days, when just one short video file can fill a 2GB drive. I am on a PC, though, and needed to upgrade my disk card (to ATA-133) to access the newer drives. Otherwise they appear to 'crumble', but not from the fault of the drives. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
