[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Lionel Peterson]

I meant to add, for those that don't know the movie, the gag in Twins is that Arnold was the product of careful bio-engineering, they were trying to create an ideal person, and Danny DeVito's character wasn't planned for, and instead has the 'leftovers' after Arnold was created in the womb.

I couldn't find a suitable movie clip to share.

Ken

> On Jan 8, 2025, at 15:57, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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