Windows RAID

[Arno]

It seems like you're assuming the system runs Linux. I'm not sure if you
would take this position with a Windows system where software RAID has
limitations.

Well, yes, but that is primnarily a reason not to use windows,
or at least to virtualize windows and run it on a solid basis
instead that does not have these stupid limitations.

Arno

 

[Arno]

Perhaps, then, those Macintosh minions shouldn't be quite so
haughty?

Well, the less substance, the more haughtiness. Just look
at religion, where they make complex constructs based
on absolutely nothing and claim they have the truth
about existence. In fact, if people claim they are
better, that usually is a strong indicator that they
are worse.

Regardless, I'm just angry that I'd misspelled "because" as
"becauae" (a typo), in my prior reply.

Flew right past my error-correction. It is not like spelling
is important, as long as the message is understandable. Another
thing in the haughtiness class: Spelling-nazis typically
have nothing of importance to say.

Arno

 

[John Turco]

Well, the less substance, the more haughtiness. Just look
at religion, where they make complex constructs based
on absolutely nothing and claim they have the truth
about existence. In fact, if people claim they are
better, that usually is a strong indicator that they
are worse.

Here on <there
had once raged "religious wars" concerning IDE versus
SCSI, among other heated debates.

On this note, whatever became of the "Rita Ä Berkowitz"
SCSI fanatic? (That person started using "Larry Thong"
as a handle, over at <a few
years ago.)

Must've vanished from Usenet altogether, as did the
fearsome Folkert Rienstra.

Flew right past my error-correction. It is not like spelling
is important, as long as the message is understandable. Another
thing in the haughtiness class: Spelling-nazis typically
have nothing of importance to say.

Arno

I can't help it...I'm truly a compulsive perfectionist!
Proofreading my messages is a habit...and I want them
to be free of mistakes, before posting.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

Here on <there
had once raged "religious wars" concerning IDE versus
SCSI, among other heated debates.

ATA evolved to include multitasking commands, and they both went serial, so
SCSI won the debate, didn't it?

I can't help it...I'm truly a compulsive perfectionist!
Proofreading my messages is a habit...and I want them
to be free of mistakes, before posting.

If you continually correct your friends' grammar, they may tap you to
proofread something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/CouponSurfers...681A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311522380&sr=8-1

 

[Arno]

ATA evolved to include multitasking commands, and they both went serial, so
SCSI won the debate, didn't it?

On the command side SCSI won it a long tme before,
as the SCSI command set is used for USB storage.

I think the main thing in that debate was that some
people need to look at storage prices, while other do not.
(I always will look, after all if I understand prices,
I can get more for the same money!)

The next thing is of course SSD, but that price difference
is still too large for a religious war about it.

Wups. Well, if you just correct yourself and let other be,
that is fine with me. And I would not accuse you to
protitize form over content.

Arno

 

[John Turco]

ATA evolved to include multitasking commands, and they both went serial,
so SCSI won the debate, didn't it?

No...it lost, where it >really< counted (i.e., the marketplace).

If you continually correct your friends' grammar, they may tap you to
proofread something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/CouponSurfers...681A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311522380&sr=8-1

I don't do that, though. Regardless, I wish you and your colleagues well,
in your Amazon.com endeavor(s).

 

[John Turco]

On the command side SCSI won it a long tme before, as the SCSI command set
is used for USB storage.

In that relatively few USB enclosures contain SCSI drives, I'd say IDE was
the undoubted winner.

I think the main thing in that debate was that some people need to look
at storage prices, while other do not. (I always will look, after all if
I understand prices, I can get more for the same money!)

Indeed. SCSI has simply never been competitive, from a cost standpoint.

The next thing is of course SSD, but that price difference is still too
large for a religious war about it.


Wups. Well, if you just correct yourself and let other be, that is fine
with me. And I would not accuse you to protitize form over content.

Arno

If I tried to "correct others" -- I wouldn't have time, to do anything
else.

 

[Arno]

No...it lost, where it >really< counted (i.e., the marketplace).

Oh, I disagree. It is just that SCSI HDDs (just the main SCSI
application, but by no means SCSI itself) lost. SCSI as in the
SCSI command-subset is pretty strong, as every USB storage device
talks it over USB cables. No stupid 24 bit or 48 bit sector
numbers either, it was 32 bit from the beginning and pretty
soon 64 bit.

The problem is just that SCSI was mature, flexible and fast
at a time ATA did not even exist and so was the natural
selection for high-performance drives and whan you wanted 7 (or 15)
drives on one controllers. His later morphed to HDD manufacturers
associating SCSI with "high quality" (sometimes true, some times
not and basically just higher speeds today at vastly higher prices).

But the technology is around and will not go away. Just the
specific application as the HDD-integrated interface has
morphed to SAS now, which is almost SATA, but not quite.
SAS controllers can work with SATA disks, but not the other
way round. What is a thing of the past is SCSI as "high
reliability". Ans it was not always true either.

But you need to remember that SCSI is not a HDD interface. It
is a bus system, multi-master capable, supports several meters
of cable (depending on variant) and has very high interoperability
and reliability, _if_ you are able to understand the termination
concept. Turns out that "exactly two terminators, one at precisely
each end" is beyong quite a few IT "experts". It was, for example,
also used to attach scanners or as a high-speed PC local interconnect,
as it is multi-master capable.

Arno