[Gllug] IDE RAID

Christopher Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jun 12 00:13:51 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 6:11 pm, Simon Faulkner wrote:

//snip//

>
> I think that IDE will do although I will quote a similar size in SCSI
>
> IDE - £1800
> SCSI - £4400
>
> I guess I know their answer already :-)

They probably don't realise that the SCSI is substantially more reliable, much 
faster, and easier to repair WHEN (not "if") a drive fails.  When the 
dreadful day arrives, and a drive dies, they're NOT going to impressed with 
the speed of recovery - if you can actually do it reliably!

Chris





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