Re: ATA over Ethernet

In some of the older drives (good ol' 540's), you could swap controller
boards between scsi and IDE. The pin interfaces on the hd cartridge were
the same and the drives would work........long enough to grab necessary
data off from it that is. I did not try long term use. If that's the
case, then the actual platters, motor and machanics phisically are
identical - barring the server class high-speed specialty drives of
modern day.

I think the point is comparing the 10k LV drives of today that are
spec'd out better than the bargin $50 7200 RPM units. The 10k's
would/should have better bearings and such to keep up with the
performance requirements. Thought, things may be evening out once again
since HD manufacturer's are backing their IDE products for a full 3
years again.

-Ben

Mike Tibor wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, KURT BRENDGARD wrote:
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>
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>>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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