[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:35:16AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> You have to remember, too, that Jay is really serious about this  
> stuff.  He's remarked before that he doesn't trust PATA or SATA  
> drives, only SCSI.  I can sort of see his point, but I find it hard  
> to justify the cost when serially-attached-SCSI disks cost roughly  
> *five times* what SATA drives of the same size do.

Well, to be clear: I just think that there's a reason why SCSI drives
cost 6 times as much, and that it comes out in reliability.

And, FWIW, I now *have* read that Google paper, or at least the
abstract and the lede, and it doesn't mention SCSI disks at *all*; I
repeat: the Google White Paper *does not say* that ATA disks are just as
reliable as equivalent SCSI disks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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