[Gllug] SCSI more reliable than Maxline PlusII?

[Garry Heaton]

Chris Bell wrote:

>    Agreed, the historic argument was about IDE v SCSI, and I was trying to
> think of reasons why SCSI should have a higher original reputation. This
> could be because IDE drives may thrash around more under the same
> circumstances. I would hope that SATA drives, with only one per cable by
> design, would not be worked harder than SCSI, so that would not be a valid
> reason for them to fail early. I would expect the fibre connected drives to
> be hammered most during normal use, so it may be worth comparing specs
> between fibre, SCSI, and IDE drives.
> 

I'm not sure where fibre comes into it. My main query is whether the vast
price diff per Gb between SCSI and the better quality SATA drives is
accountable to better engineering. If so, I'll pay it but maybe it's
marginal these days? I'm assuming use of top quality RAID cards to eliminate
any problems stemming from controllers.

Garry

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