Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra (ldutra_at_prefeitura.sp.gov.br)
Date: 12/29/03

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    To: "A.L.Meyers" <spamnjet@yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:57:06 -0200

    Em Qua, 1997-01-01 às 10:09, A.L.Meyers escreveu:
    > Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> writes:
    >
    > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI disks,
    > > the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically identical, whether
    > > IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are different.
    > > It's working as coded.
    >
    > Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply
    > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the
    > interface and not in the media?

            Mechanichally yes, they are equal. But it is not only the controllers
    which are different. Quality control is different, and that
    mechanically, magnetically, and in the firmware. 

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