On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 04:14 PM, Ron wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:17:28 -0500 Subject: SCSI hard drives ? Where get um ? From: Robert H. Baucom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A couple of weeks back, someone mentioned they preferred the SCSI to the ATA drives as they lasted longer. I need an internal SCSI drive about 9 GB would be super.
Where can i find one that's not 86 GB and costs $789.00. Prefer Seagate
or Lacie OR "best of all" an IBM. The one in my PTP is getting noisy
and the picture on the monitor is getting shaky. I'm backing
everything up, but it's got me nervous. Need another one for my highly
modified PCP240.
RHB
You never see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrist's office
Seagate sells the drives on their site, but they are expensive. $100.00 +
for a decent size drive, but they are guaranteed. I've always wondered why
SCSI is so much higher priced than IDE drives. I assume they have to be
better or they wouldn't sell any at the prices they ask. I'm sure volume
sales help keep IDE prices low but not that much.
I have have good luck with SCSI drives, and bad luck with most of the IDE's
I have used. My PTP 250's original drive is the only SCSI I have had fail
out of all of my Macs. I have 5 vintage Macs and all of the original SCSI
drives are working, although they never have been run as hard as my PTP, but
they are much older nonetheless.
In my opinion used IDE drives are worthless and can't be counted on. Used
SCSI drives can last a long time for the money.
Ron
Thinking back, this is the second SCSI drive I've had to go bad. The one in the PTP came out of a PCP210 that had been a Website machine (24-7) so I'm sure it has 100's of hours on it. The other drive that failed was a one GB that came in a used SE30 I bought. I used it as an on site machine in my consulting business and lost some irreplaceable data (unobtainium) that time. I still kick myself mentally for not having an external back up drive.
RHB
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