I've also had a lot more scsi drives die than IDE. Maybe because they run hotter?? Most of the time, the circuit board fails with something burnt or something, I've only had one die of mechanical failure. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Yaron [mailto:jethro at freakzilla.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:04 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] HDD IO optimizing > > > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > 1. What do you need 75Gb for? > > jethro at dragon:/home/jethro> df -h /home > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda12 42G 33G 9.4G 78% /home > > I do a lot of video capture. It takes up space. > > > 2. When all your 75Gb go down the tubes... You'll be sorry you were > > cheap. > > SCSI is absolutely no guarantee of quality. I've had many, > many SCSI drives die on me - more than I can remember > offhand. I've only had about 2 IDE drives die on me. > > SCSI and IDE drives aren't really that different. SCSI is > overpriced for very little reason. Some say they go through a > tougher QA process, but then IBM Deskstarts (75GB IDE) do too. > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >