Re: Linux? Void my warantee? Make tech support impossible?

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 07/13/05 

Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:00:07 GMT

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, TokaMundo
<TokaMundo@weedizgood.org>
 wrote
on Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:42:34 GMT
<hro8d1dbip2q9eqkop6ef1opu3sd6l2c42@4ax.com>:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:00:06 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine
> <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> Gave us:
>
>>And IDE is beating both of them, at least on the desktop. It's
>>a pity, too; AFAIK SCSI has more capability.
>>
>>Ah well.
>
>
> Only as a result of cheaper cost of manufacture, and subsequent cost
> to the consumer. MTBFs and throughput are barely keeping pace though.

One would think MTBF and throughput are a function of the drive,
not the interface. A disk head scraping across a platter because
of mechanical jarring or a bit o' dust isn't going to make any
diff to the disk/cable/system interface, methinks.

As for reading -- the bits fly across the head at a more
or less fixed speed (the outer cylinders hold more data),
depending on drive geometry, not interface. The need for
"interleaving" drives (if you remember the old MFM and
RLL-era klunkers) are long gone. 

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