[mythtv-users] Where are those new 1TB drives?

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Wed Mar 14 15:26:22 UTC 2007


Indulis Bernsteins wrote:
>
> jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
> > This is why the people that run the companies that sell the sort of
> > highend gear you're speaking of still recommend SCSI over SATA for
> > it's better command queuing.
> >  
>
> >Well, that, and the markup on SCSI drives is significantly higher. ;)
>
> 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.
>
> The photos showed a big differentce in build quality.  Bigger 
> bearings, better seals, better casing. Guess which one was better?
>
> 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.
>
Hmmm.. These photos available anywhere?  That would make interesting 
viewing.

--Yan


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