My experience with the new Maxtor drives is very positive. They perform well and seem very reliable. Seagate drives however seem to be very sensitive to knocks and bumps.
However, I must agree with you on the raid5 solution... for large raid setups, the only practical solution is SCSI. As for cooling... those >10000rpm drives sure do run hot, so cooling is of utmost importance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Abrahamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: RAID & Hard disk performance > > Well, my experience instead is that scsi is rock solid compared to ide > as long as you choose drives with same rotational speed etc. If you get > those high rpm drives you have to be very careful with cooling. I try > always to get 7200rpm drives and also stay away from certain brands, and > then I havent seen one failure this year. Biggest problem I see with ide > is the way drives can behave so differently and that you need all your > pci slots to run a decent raid5 system, if not going for one of the very > rare 5+ channel hardware raid controllers. Which are just as expensive > as scsi controllers and have really no good linux support that I have > found. If you want anything above 6-7 disks in a raid system you really > dont have any alternative than scsi, no matter if you want to run > software or hardware raid. > > For workstations though I would go with IDE, not many people load their > computers to the degree they would note the difference. > > So for drive failings, I would say that they much more correlate to > certain drive models and/or manufacturers than ide/scsi. Personally I > try and stay as far away as possible from Maxtor and Seagate, but thats > me. (I used to work way back as a pc tech, and I dont think I have ever > seen so many dead on arrival drives as from seagate, maxtors usually > worked at first and then started dying one by one) > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.zentek-international.com >
