[Gllug] SCSI more reliable than Maxline PlusII?

[John Winters]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 08:49, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 10 Sep, Garry Heaton wrote:
> > 
> > Disregarding read/write speed and given a decent hardware RAID card, are
> > SCSI disks mechanically more reliable than the best SATA disks? An assistant
> > at GND (www.gnd.com) suggested Maxtor's Maxline PlusII disks are
> > mechanically a fair match for SCSI.
> > 
> > Garry
> > 
>    I heard that a disadvantage of IDE was that master and slave received the
> same address commands. This could cause multiple discs to search for every
> address, causing excessive mechanical wear.

For a RAID implementation using IDE disks I would expect each disk to
have its own controller.  If you put to RAIDed drives on the same
controller, performance goes out the window and the failure of one
controller kills 2 drives which would not be nice.

John

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