Re: ATA / IDE Controller for Blade 1000 / 2000


"llothar" <llothar@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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My SCSI drives (73GB) cost less than 200? each. This is not as cheap as a
SATA drive, but affordable nowadays.
And I don't need higher capacities as I am a developer and for my
purposes
(developing and communication)
even less would be OK.

At Alternate (a huge reseller in Germany i have to pay 5,69 Euro for a
SAS, something liek 2,20 Euro for U320 and 0,35 for SATA).


And yes i think SATA is enough for a desktop, it doesn't make sene in
99% of the cases to add something more expensive in a desktop. We are
not talking about servers here. You don't understand and Sun don't
understand this. Desktops and Workstations (almost the same) need to
have a good price/value relation. And why the hell do you want to put a
15000rpm disk into a workstation that has 1/4 (or less) of the CPU
speed of a state of the art mainstream system ?
Do you know what you are talking about? Three months ago I had a
hard disk failure at the office. I (and thus the company I am working for)
lost most of the work of one day and another day for re-installing all the
needed software on a new drive.
The drive was a one year old SATA drive. So, the company saved approx. 150?
for the drive and paid this savings with 2 developer days (approx. 1000?).
I am talking about workstations and not home PCs.
So, from your comments I conclude that your work (or time) is worth just a
few bucks but my work is more expensive.
Furthermore I have decided for myself that my personal data and my spare
time is worth more than the difference between a cheap SATA drive and a more
expensive SCSI drive. Even if the SCSI drive promises just a little bit more
reliability.


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