SCSI Reliability

[koldapu]

anyone here know if SCSI (specifically, the hitachi/ibm one) Ultra320s are reliable?

 

[sithspawn]

scsi is EXTREMELLY reliable. one of the reasons (except speed) you pay through the nose for it (never understood that saying, but you get what i mean)

 

[ShoobieRat]

SCSI's are very reliable. The space between the reliability of scsi and the reliability of ATA is steadily decreasing, though. You can buy a good Seagate ATA HDD and have it last for years with no problems. (I can vouche for that a dozen times over.) I've had one Seagate 80gig drive for over six years, and it's still running great! After 3 moves, in and out of cases, power failures, being dropped once (at least, I think...) and deplorable in-box conditions, that lil' sucker is still going. It's got my MP3 file and email backups on it right now, at work.

 

[xotix]

scsi is very reliable. thats one reason they cost so much and are used primarily in servers.

 

[koldapu]

yeah, but i wouldn't mind getting 2 15,000 RPM Ultra320s in RAID0 in my desktop (at least when the new pci comes out for AMD)

 

[koldapu]

scsi is EXTREMELLY reliable. one of the reasons (except speed) you pay through the nose for it (never understood that saying, but you get what i mean)

hahah, no i dont get what you mean