[clue-tech] Cheap Dell server box

[Richard Knechtel]

The ones we have gotten from Dell were Maxtor and Segate drives.  When I 
saw they were Maxtor's  I knew why. I have bought maxtor drives for at home 
(EIDE) and they were pretty crappy. They used to be pretty good drives at 
one time. I still have a 340 Meg Maxtor SCSI drive that I bought in 1988 
and it is still kicking.

At 03:24 PM 3/12/2005, you wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:13:04 -0700, Richard Knechtel
><rknechte at starband.net> wrote:
> >
>
> > Why? Lets see, one guy I work with has gone through 3 of them - burned up.
> > He even had to have is case open with an osolating fan blowing into the
> > case. Yes this was on a Dell PC even.  We just had another guy on Thursday
> > had his SATA drive fail/die/crash this was in a Dell PC that was less than
> > 6 months old. In a development environment you can' afford to
> > be  rebuilding your system constantly because of drive failures.
>
>I work for a hosting company and we use SATA in a large number of
>machines. I'm not aware of any heating issues unique to SATA drives
>vs. SCSI or IDE.
>
>As far as I know, there's no real difference between SATA and IDE
>drives as far as the physical makeup of the drive, with the exception
>of the electronics and connector types - and SATA should be more
>cooling-friendly since the cables don't obstruct air flow the way that
>IDE ribbon cables do. If someone is more experience with SATA drives
>and the difference between SATA/SCSI and IDE, and knows this not to be
>true, please correct me.
>
>So far, I haven't seen any SATA drives fail in the environment I work
>in - though I've seen a number of SCSI and IDE drives fail (after long
>and productive lives...).
>
>Perhaps Dell buys particularly crappy SATA drives, or has been the
>victim of a bad batch... I seem to recall IBM had a high failure rate
>with some of their SCSI drives a few years ago.
>
>Best,
>
>Zonker
>--
>Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
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