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Date:	Tue, 3 May 2005 11:16:15 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re:ULTRA II SCSI card

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> Besides performance, SCSI has historically had it
> *WAY OVER* IDE on the MTBF spec. (Mean Time Between
> Failures, a.k.a. overall service life.) Because it
> was supposed to be an industrial grade item, intended
> for servers. That may still be the case,

No. That was a long time ago. PC Mag once said it was not IF your
HDD would fail, only WHEN. Then IDE got better. My 120Meg still
works fine. The only advantage today seems to be the number of
devices that can be put on a controller.

Ray

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