RE: ATA over Ethernet

true, you probably could get a lot better results by
cooling the case real good. when i heard that, i was
working for harry at alaska used computers, and i
never got the chance to figure it out for myself. it
was on at least the ibm site for their drives though.
all i know is im too poor to find out, all my drives
are throw aways others find too small to work with,
and therefore at the end of their life anyways :p id
love to see one of these things up close and personal
to see check it out.

--- Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> wrote:

> 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 11:16:33 2004