backup systems

[Net Llama!]

SCSI still has a higher MTBF than IDE by a significant margin.  Regardless
of the size of a business, they don't like hardware failure.

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> True. But as I stated, most SMB(Small/Medium Business) never put that
> much demand on a system. SCSI is overkill for them.
>
> On Friday 24 May 2002 18:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> > > On Friday 24 May 2002 08:43, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > IDE RAID is *garbage*.  If you're going to use hardware RAID,
> > > > use SCSI, or don't bother.
> > >
> > > Not true.
> > > IDE drives are reliable and fast enough now that most SMB will be
> > > very happy with their performance.
> >
> > *NO* IDE drives have performance eqivalent to a SCSI drive.  IDE is
> > not designed to be able to produce a sustainable data transfer
> > rate, as is the case with SCSI.
>
>

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