Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:46:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:46:39 -0500 Received: from sweetums.bluetronic.net ([66.57.88.6]:58042 "EHLO sweetums.bluetronic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:46:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:46:17 -0500 (EST) From: Ricky Beam To: Alan Cox cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote: >Right at the moment the same process seems to work for IDE drives with 1 >year warranties. *grin* SCSI drives last a long time and have long warranties. IDE drives fail often and have short warranties. It all averages out. The point is how often do you send a drive back? With IDE, it's all the time. With SCSI it's rare. Case in point, how many SCSI drives have been bad right out of the box vs. IDE? In my experience, I've never had a bad SCSI drive from the get-go. I currently have one Maxtor waiting to be sent back. And 2 out of 16 for a 1G array were defective at powerup. (2 more failed within a week.) Which is cheaper... asprin and shipping charges, or going SCSI from the get go? (I know, but I don't like headaches! and the lovely Caen Raptor line makes things way too expensive for my boss.) --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/