RE: ATA over Ethernet

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, KURT BRENDGARD wrote:

> nice.....wipes chin...... but i have to ask myself how
> reliable it is long term. the problem with using ide
> drives is that most manufacturers nowdays say that the
> ide drive is not supposed to be left on for more than
> 10 hours a day last i heard. the heat buildup kills
> their life span was what i remember, but with my
> memory that could be wrong. thats one of the reasons
> ide drives are not the cats meow when it comes to high
> end servers, that and speed for multiple simultaneous
> access. anybody heard differently? it would be
> interesting to find out if things have changed. the
> sata drives were supposed to overcome that among other
> things, the makers dont list any such limitations on
> time used per day. i wonder if an sata version is in
> the works? interesting :>

The key for using IDE in production is to not do what most people do
(which is to ensure good cooling for SCSI drives, but ignore the IDEs).
If you make sure you have good cooling, your IDE drives should be just as
reliable as your SCSI drives.

I'm sure the SCSI zealots will now flame me incessantly, ;-) but in my
years of system administration and hardware work, I've seen very few IDE
drive deaths where a SCSI drive would have survived in the same situation.
It does happen, but they're really pretty rare.

Mike

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Received on Tue Oct 26 10:35:06 2004