🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <iAxzb.6666$t87.2004@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>, 
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
>news:PYmdnfxD5JBSBFOiRVn-jA@comcast.com...
>| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
>| news:zHwzb.21159$UG2.949@nwrdny03.gnilink.net...
>| > 
>| > Go RAID 5 and SCSI and you will not have the artificial barriers
>| > of IDE hard disk controllers.  Plus you a very reliable and very 
>| > fast disk sub-system.
>|
>| That's ridiculous. A $900 computer and $1500 worth of disk.
>| 250GB works fine in a 4550.
>
>Except...
>
>You are not taking into account;   the importance of the data, the reliability
> factor and the sheer speed that RAID 5 provides.

I can understand your enthusiasm for a RAID system that provides data 
redundancy, but do you need to run a SCSI system to do this?

I have the impression from comments elsewhere in recent times that 
modern IDE drives are perfectly adequate and SCSI is quite simply 
over-priced, perhaps even over-rated, in comparison these days?

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Cheers, Phred.

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