[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Lionel Peterson]

SATA is the Danny DeVito twin to SAS's Arnold Swartzenegger (Movie reference, "Twins") https://images.app.goo.gl/epXtv2oCDefJY7Vm9

SAS is Serial Attached SCSI - it's right there in the name!

The value of IDE is (as I always understood it)  it used a commodity controller built-into every motherboard to simplify the design/lower the cost of the controller on the individual drive.

Its primary design goal was reduced cost, performance was secondary, it just needed to be better than MFM/RLL drives...


Ken

> On Jan 8, 2025, at 15:38, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1/8/25 15:35, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>>> As a technical geek, I prefer SCSI too.  [...]
>>>> But, as a sysadmin, I prefer IDE (and, now, SATA) - for disk [...]
>>> So what's your feeling about SAS?
>> I'm...not sure; I haven't run into it enough.  But what little I've
>> picked up about it places it basically on a par with SATA; it's just
>> that the error bars on that are huge.
> 
>  ...except that it's SCSI, and thus does not suck.  The same cannot be, IMO, said of SATA.
> 
>              -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
> 
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