well ive got a couple scsi's at home they get switche on and off quite a bit and the drive on the testing machine i have at home goes through a bit of torture as far as usage goes.
i agree with the analysis though. IDE get some thrashing as far as usage go. but youd think theyd be able to make a more stable drive seeing that there is alot of demand for them now. especially with a lot of people doing alot of home editing and video at home. they shouldnt pike the home users on good working hardware. its bad manufacturing practise IMHO. tom "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." -F. Scott Fitzgerald- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hannigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Paul L Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Marty Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices > 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
