Hi John I agree fully with the second part of your statement. >>And I repeat: >>So why do IBM offer IDE RAID arrays on their xServer systems? >>Those are systems which are meant to be left running continually
It all depends on your needs and the level of safety required. It's not a prove of quality selling something in the computer business. Look at all this super fast, noisy and overheating desktop computers with rubbish power supplies and noisy fans manufacturers sell today, they sell, what consumers want and pay for. It's a lot cheaper to invest in the best material for mission critical servers than having any failures and dropouts. The IDE Raid array's I had at home run sufficient well, I replaced them with single drives because of lack of support for BEOS and certain Linux distributions and the noise and heat they produced like you said in your email. I also had audio stuttering problems with promise drivers because of poor IRQ sharing. Back to Pentaxing :-), maybe anyone uses a Hitachi/IBM Micro drive on his Pentax for storage? Markus
