<br><tt><font size=2>jedi@mishnet.org wrote:<br>
> This is why the people that run the companies that sell the sort of<br>
> highend gear you're speaking of still recommend SCSI over SATA for<br>
> it's better command queuing.<br>
> <br>
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>Well, that, and the markup on SCSI drives is significantly higher.
;)</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I work for a large computer company and someone in
one of the storage design teams went out and bought a SCSI drive, an IDE
drive, and a SATA drive, and dissected them.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The photos showed a big differentce in build quality.
Bigger bearings, better seals, better casing. Guess which one was
better?</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>There is a reason why SATA RAID array "best practices"
is for 2x as many spares per disk population, and why "dual parity"
is used.</font></tt>
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</font><font size=3>Indulis</font>