A few questions I can't find in archive...

[Ugo Bellavance]

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>De : Martin Sapsed [mailto:m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK]
>Envoyé : 1 mars, 2004 11:10
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: A few questions I can't find in archive...
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>Nick Nelson wrote:
>> In that case, and with the talk of SATA drives possibly not doing as
>> well, I'll probably just skip back to Dual Xeons with SCSI 
>drives.  The
>> cost is less on the Dual Xeons as well, which is a good 
>thing of course.
>
>Did anyone else see the stuff which suggested that cheap SATA and IDE
>drives weren't designed for 24/7 server use but SCSI stuff is? 
>Something
>in some Hitachi or IBM warranty stuff I think it was.

Yes, it was from IBM (at the time they were not with Hitachi yet).

For sure, I'd go with IDE drives with 3 or 5 year warranty.

On could also have a look at the MTBF data of the drives.

>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin
>
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