On Friday 28 October 2005 05:10, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Thursday 27 October 2005 20:59, Allan Wind wrote: >>>On 2005-10-27T19:33:22-0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Our first foray into using a scsi based commercial server resulted >>>> in its getting converted to ata disks fairly rapidly as the scsi >>>> raid lost a drive at 2 week intervals. A single big atapi/eide >>>> drive turned out to be faster, and a heck of a lot more reliable. >>> >>>While I feel for you, it's not a good idea to make decisions based on >>> a single installation. If you have disks dying every 2 weeks, >>> something else was up. Heat would be my first guess. Seagate, I >>> think, had a batch of bad SCSI drives recently. >> >>This was back when scsi drives were 8GB max, so quite a bit of water >> has passed by now. > >If I've learned one thing about disks in the last few years, it's >that you should never ever buy the largest disks available. > >I remember when 2 GB SCSI was common and 4 GB was brand-new, we >bought 4 GB disks. Lots of problems with heat, reliability .. >replaced them with 2 2 GB disks each, problem gone. Seagate, BTW. > >I've seen the same pattern over the years with both SCSI and IDE >disks. Just buy disks half the size of the current maximum capacity. >Those models have the kinks worked out. > >One other thing is that lots of people don't get SCSI termination >right. And that can cause lots of trouble that you don't have >with ATA/SATA, including things like (apparently, but not >really) failing disks.
And I've written several chapters of that bible myself. Even the so-called engineers don't always 'get it right' :-) >Mike. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
