[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 16:27, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > Well, I'm a SCSI bigot; in particular, IDE doesn't support
> > disconnect-reconnect, which is a pain for non-hard disc devices.
> 
> Why is IDE cheaper and more popular then?
I don't know - probably because of volumes of units manufactured.

I think this discussion is centred around desktop systems -
where the choice may well be a close run thing.
Me telling the grannies on the list about egg sucking again...

For big systems and storage arrays it is a different matter.

My favourite book of the moment is "Building Storage Networks"
by Mark Farley.
He discusses IDE on page 41 - and only devotes 1/2 page to it.

Interestingly enough, he then discusses Firewire.






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