Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 11:28, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
> Anyone
> betting their business on big cheap EIDE drives rather than SCSI
> better have (and religiously use) first class tape backup systems.
> They're gonna need 'em because the failure rates for EIDE drives used
> in 24/7 servers are between two to three orders of magnitude higher
> than SCSI.

The businesses that purchase from us use hardware raid with their big 
cheap IDE drives, most often raid 5 or raid 10, most often with hot 
spares in the chassis as well.  Given that SATA is hotswap, disk 
outages don't result in system outages, taking away yet another 
advantage that SCSI has.

Given the reliability of these "cheap big EIDE servers" vs the cost of a 
SCSI system providing the same capacity, it's no wonder people are 
making the switch.  The price difference is somewhere in the 8 orders 
of magnitude.

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