[mythtv-users] Cheap SCSI scanners - was:The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Brian Wood]

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 10/21/07, *Jay R. Ashworth* <jra at baylink.com
> <mailto:jra at baylink.com>> wrote:
> 
>     That datacenter buyers still use SCSI (and shortly, SAS) drives
>     exclusively, even over that 6:1 price disadvantage -- and the need to
>     sell it to PHBs -- tells me that the price differential exists for a
>     reason, or those guys would lose their jobs. 
> 
> 
> Yet Google use IDE. That tells me that a lot of the people choosing SCSI
> are doing so purely because "that's the way it's always been done".
> Admittedly if you want 15k drives you have to choose SCSI. But in terms
> of reliability if there was really much evidence that SCSI was better
> we'd be able to point to studies that show that. Instead all we've got
> is a lot of anecdotes.

Perhaps, sort of like the "nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft"
theory.

I suppose if there really was solid evidence that SCSI was better the
manufacturers would be trumpeting it all over the place, at least in
non-consumer circles.

But for now I'll continue to use SCSI for a 24/7 server that I really
don't want to go down, and IDE for toys like Myth.

beww