On Wednesday 19 November 2003 11:28, dsavage(a)peaknet.net wrote:
Anyone
betting their business on big cheap EIDE drives rather than SCSI
better have (and religiously use) first class tape backup systems.
They're gonna need 'em because the failure rates for EIDE drives used
in 24/7 servers are between two to three orders of magnitude higher
than SCSI.
The businesses that purchase from us use hardware raid with their big
cheap IDE drives, most often raid 5 or raid 10, most often with hot
spares in the chassis as well. Given that SATA is hotswap, disk
outages don't result in system outages, taking away yet another
advantage that SCSI has.
Given the reliability of these "cheap big EIDE servers" vs the cost of a
SCSI system providing the same capacity, it's no wonder people are
making the switch. The price difference is somewhere in the 8 orders
of magnitude.
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