pokopiko said:
hehe, ok I'm assuming here that was not a spelling error but a rather sly jab towards a majorly misunderstood concept about SCSI ... the Co$t ...
Commonly heard speech against SCSI: "It's sooo much more expensive"....
But, is it really? I mean, you have all heard the phrase, "You get what you pay for", right? Well, why do you think the Warrenty on IDE stuff was always like 1 year, whereas SCSI was 5 years?
Now, let me share a secret with everyone ... Internally the hardware on a SCSI drive and the hardware on a IDE drive are EXACTLY THE SAME! What is different you ask? Well, that little chip board on the bottom side of the HDD is basically what it boils down too. SCSI is basically just a OLDER, more stable, more mature and advanced standard! It's a smarter manager of your data and the way it reads, writes and accesses your data is basically what you are paying for. Larger Cache, Faster Access Rates, better recovery, more stable IO, higher spindle speed, etc, etc ...
So it boils down to the same ol thing once again... What is you machine doing? Viewing Porn, checking email, scanning pictures of your girlfriend, Betsy, petting your dog Woofy, that is chewing on your cat, Fluffy?
Or must it hold, manage and serve mission critical Enterprise Corporate Data or crunch multiple Gigs of Video to produce TV Media quality presentations, or any other number of rather important data that is worth more than losing and having to re-set your favorite QIII settings if it goes down? Or are Millions of $$$ possibly at stake?
Many times over I have shown people I know how in the long run SCSI has proven itsself to me to be WAYYYY cheaper! I still have WIDE and UW drives that I bought some 5, 6 and 7 years ago that are still running around the clock providing me reliable service. Yet, usually those same people that would tease me about how much CHEAPER their drive were hate to admit they have bought 4 or 5 replacement drives since then and they really hate that my drives that are 6 or more years older are still actually FASTER than their newest drives. Even my 4.5 Gig UW drives have more cache, faster spindle and thus faster access rates than the newest ATA drives on the market. (Seagate Cheetah drives)
IDE/ATA, USB, etc, etc ... It can all get to be and pretent it is as fast as they want to claim it to be, but the biggest fact still remains that their is a traffic Jam on the bus that they all want to keep ignoring because a standard has yet to emerge that is big enough to FORCE everyone to stick too that can break the 32 bit bus. Meanwhile, those of us on the SCSI TRAIN have room to grow for a long time to come ... And that isnt even the end of the road ... SCSI isnt the TOP or BEST ... it's just the BEST for the $$$.
Kind of funny when you think about it, people complain that SCSI is too expensive ... LOL ... If money was NO object, go with FiberChannel/MemoryChannel ... Whoa Doggie! Now that is some sweet stuff there! And again, this is stuff that has been around for Decades!
It is as if everyone is running around trying to find a way to RE-invent the wheel ... Someone will eventually do it and they will become soo rich they make Billy Gates look poor.
