[mythtv-users] 2 TB Hard Drive Recommendations

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ben Kamen" <bkamen at benjammin.net>
>>
>> On 12/5/2010 8:39 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> > And note that those fibre-channel drives are *SCSI-class* bubbles;
>> > do not > let *anyone* tell you that SCSI drives are 6 times as expensive as
>> > SATA *only* because of manufacturer quantity; that's crap -- the drives really
>> > are built better. It may be anecdotal experience, but it's 25 years worth of
>> > it.
>>
>> And speaking of Micropolis,
>>
>> I have a Micropolis 1GB drive downstairs that we got back when the 1GB
>> size came in a SCSI or PATA-IDE variety at pretty much the same price.
>> (I think the diff was like $20)...
>>
>> I really wish SCSI hadn't gone so high in price like it did or I'd
>> have stuck with it.
>> It seems to me these days that SCSI is way out there rather than just
>> being worth a few extra bucks.
>
> "pretty much the same price"?
>
> I have never in my career seen a SCSI drive that didn't cost 4 to 6
> times per MB/GB what the equivalent sized MFM/RLL/IDE/SATA drive did,
> and I remember Micropolis, as well as the Tandon's, Miniscribes, Quantums
> and Connors.

The mechanics inside SCSI drives are much better on average though.
You can get the low-end models that have the scsi-tax added that are
not much more than ides, but they are still better too.  And since
SCSI uses a common language, you do not have all of these
manufacturers cutting corners on their ahci code to get better power
savings (which is usually the low level reason for ATA RAID failures
with them)..

Hopefully over time, all of the manufacturers get slapped a few times
and quit it.  3ware's list of drives they absolutely will not support
is a pretty good guide to live by if you are going to use ahci raid..

> Where were you buying your drives?  :-)
>
> (And here's a walk down memory lane, BTW: http://www.redhill.net.au/id.html)