Date   : Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:37:31 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: SASI/SCSI <>IDE, distracting thoughts.

On 15 Mar 2006, at 10:28, John Kortink wrote:
> A mere BBC presents hardly any load at all. And I'd
> rather doubt the reliability of a 20 year old SCSI
> drive versus that of a modern IDE one. SCSI was only
> ever more reliable in punishing server environments,
> but even that was more a function of proper failsafe
> behaviour rather than hardware reliability. In fact,
> there's probably no difference there at all except
> for the interface electronics.

Quite. And anecdotally I've seen higher failure rates with SCSI  
drives. In fact the commodity gear that most proper admins sneer at  
tends - in general - to be pretty much as reliable as high end server  
specific stuff.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net