[Gllug] SCSI Cards.

[Vincent AE Scott]

Christian Smith(csmith at micromuse.com)@Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:54:44PM +0000:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> 
> >> PS. Oh yes... be prepared to be labelled a SCSI bigot by people who
> >>     don't believe it's any better than IDE. Serial ATA may remedy
> >>     many of IDE's shortcomings, but it's not here yet. SCSI is, and
> >>     is stable and mature.
> >
> >*TOTALLY* unsubstantiated fact. Based on nothing but my personal experience.
> >
> >SCSI based systems are more reliable, on the whole, than IDE - both software
> >and hardware.
> >
> >This is, I suspect, because when people build a SCSI box, they install a
> >"better class" of components.... on the whole :)
> 
> SCSI also has parity built in, so any errors (usually with cabling) are
> DETECTED, whereas with IDE, a bad cable can just give you single bit
> errors which are not detected by hardware, or software till that
> filesystem is corrupted beyond repair.
> 
> >
> >This is STRICTLY personal experience.
> 
> And mine. But being able to burn a CD at 16x speed and being able to pay
> Q3A at the same time is nothing to be sniffed at (I'd like to try that on
> an IDE system.)
>

OK then.  you give me your SCSI gear, and i'll give you a reet nice IDE
burner in return.

Do we have a deal?



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