hard drive woes

[Jeremy Fowler]

IDE != SCSI

They are physically different not just on the interface. For starters, most SCSI
drives operate at 10,000-15,000rpms. IDE drives usually operate at
5400-7200rpms. SCSI drives usually have better quality components and more
features as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of mike neuliep
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: admin at kclinux.net
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: hard drive woes
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> Interesting, keeping in mind that SCSI drives are really IDE drives with a
> different interface board on them, you'd think physical failure would be
> about the same.  Perhaps it is the perception of IDE fail more often since
> there are WAY more IDE drives in people's homes rather than SCSI drives.
> As for me, I've had my best luck with fujitsu drives and probably had my
> worst luck with western digital, followed closely by seagate.  But hey
> this is only my personal experience.  As for anyone relying on a single
> drive of any kind for data storage, that's just crazy.  I'd suggest a
> 3ware IDE controller (very linux friendly) for raid-1 configs with IDE
> drives to protect your data from drive failure.
>
> 	Mike
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> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 admin at kclinux.net wrote:
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> > > When I worked in a hardware shop, it seems like drives became
> > > more and more unrecoverable as technology advanced.  I took that to
> > > mean that they were reliable enough that they only failed if they were
> > > really, really dead.
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> > I couldnt agree with this any more.  I no longer "depend" on IDE drives for
> > important data any more.  Seems when drives got larger than 10 gig, they
> > seem to fail alot more often.  I have four Maxtor 6 gig IDE drives in one
> > system, and I've never had a problem with them.  But for at least the past
> > 2 years, I've had 10 to 80 gig drives go out from Maxtor, Western Digital,
> > and Seagate. I havent tried IBM's desktop hard drives yet, but if they're
> > as reliable as their laptop drives in Toshiba Tecras, no thanks.
> >
> > I have yet to see one of my SCSI drives go out for the last 4 years.
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