[K12OSN] <OT> drives - technical was: Just got approval

[Steve Wright]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 03:34, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 
> > Not only that I've seen some results that support that SCSI drives simply
> > are built to last longer.  [....]
> 
> That was probably the case a few years ago, but now I think
> nearly all manufacturers take exactly the same mechanical
> parts and slap on a different logic board.  There is still
> the bottleneck with head position and since IDE is cheaper
> you'll probably buy bigger drives that make this even worse.

Somehow, I thought the opposite was the case - larger drives means
greater data density means quicker head positioning (drive has to move
head zz degrees - actually spans more data on a larger drive.)



> Anyway, for most multiuser purposes you should max out
> the RAM before considering spending more on the disk
> controller and drives.

Les speaks the truth.  ;-)


/sw