On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:41:25PM +1100, Tom wrote: > i have had an absolute shocker with seagate drives. > i like their scsi drives but as far as IDE goes, NO WAY. > as was said in a previous post - IDE reliability is basically a thing of the > past.
I had heard that ide drives were pretty much the same as scsi drives these days, mechanically at least. Would make manufacturing sense to me. Perhaps they do tests on the not quite finished drive and the ones making the loudest noises get the ide firmware and the best get the scsi firmware? Non-destructive testing will tell you a lot I imagine. I know one thing; your typical scsi drive gets a lot nicer life that the typical ide one; scsi drives tend to be constantly (clean) powered in a clean air-conditioned room and never moved. They tend to fail only when being powered on. I used to maintain a box with tons (>50) of scsi disks and we use to get one failure almost every time we turned it on. (every 6 months or so) IDE drives, by comparison get turned on and off daily, and live through cold winters and hot summers and cope with household dust and sometimes ciggy smoke. And get shoved around from desk to desk and sometimes via someones car boot. Poor things. Of the four IDE drives I've bought in the last few years none have failed. I had one SCSI drive which failed to start up, but that doesn't really count; it was an old re-conditioned one. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
