Re: [PERFORM] SCSI vs SATA

2007-04-08 Thread James Mansion
>Logic? Foul! That's NOT evidence. > >Mechanical devices have decreasing MTBF when run in hotter environments, >often at non-linear rates. I agree that this seems intuitive. But I think taking it as a cast-iron truth is dangerous. >Server class drives are designed with a longer lifespan in mi

Re: [PERFORM] SCSI vs SATA

2007-04-08 Thread Ron
At 11:13 PM 4/7/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Ron wrote: Ron, I think that many people aren't saying cheap==good, what we are doing is arguing against the idea that expesnsive==good (and it's coorelary cheap==bad) Since the buying decision is binary, you either buy high qu

Re: [PERFORM] SCSI vs SATA

2007-04-08 Thread mark
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:46:33PM -0400, Ron wrote: > The Google and CMU studies are =not= based on data drawn from > businesses where the lesser consequences of an outage are losing > $10Ks or $100K per minute... ...and where the greater consequences > include the chance of loss of human life.