[Gllug] SCSI more reliable than Maxline PlusII?

[Doug Winter]

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.

Conventional wisdom has it that SCSI disks are far more stringently 
tested.  Certainly in my experience SCSI disks are a lot more reliable, 
but then they tend to be used in better environments (constant 
temperature, no jostling) which might account for it.

Personally, I use SATA for all my RAID stuff now unless performance is a 
significant issue, simply because losing a disk in a RAID isn't a major 
issue.  The "I" in RAID is there for a purpose :)

doug.

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