From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>,
Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:16:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705180316.45969.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517150420.GA10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:04 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:39:47AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Actually, in my limited experience, SAS is marginally less crappy than
SATA,
> > and has a higher MTBF, probably because the manufacturers try to cut less
> > corners. But if one can get high-quality SATA drives (where?!), I don't
> > know why SAS would be superior to SATA.
>
> SAS is dual ported so you can have redundant cables and controllers.
Because the controller's far more likely to go than the moving parts...
On the models I saw they also literally gold plated the connectors, spun the
disks faster, and basically did everything they could think of to make the
same basic bundle of components more expensive. (Of course the fundamental
thing you do to make it more expensive is have smaller production runs in the
first place...)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-18 7:20 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <fa.YHt2nIlQmoW5r2enmTSzsaySwH4@ifi.uio.no>
2007-02-22 2:43 ` Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674) Robert Hancock
2007-02-23 20:35 ` Francesco Pretto
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2007-03-02 23:43 ` Dan Gilliam
2007-05-04 19:12 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-04 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-06 18:19 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-06 18:24 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-14 17:32 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-14 20:46 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-15 6:59 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 13:16 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-15 13:47 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 21:08 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-16 5:29 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-16 9:15 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-16 11:38 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-16 23:47 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-17 9:12 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-16 11:41 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-16 23:48 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-17 0:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-17 3:05 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-17 3:39 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-17 15:04 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-18 7:16 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2007-05-18 12:35 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-18 18:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-17 9:14 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-16 12:47 ` Stephen Clark
2007-05-16 13:49 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-16 23:52 ` Rob Landley
2007-05-16 11:38 ` Tejun Heo
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2007-02-23 0:25 ` Robert Hancock
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2007-02-22 14:34 ` Robert Hancock
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2007-02-22 6:27 ` Robert Hancock
2007-02-22 7:11 ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-22 11:33 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-02-21 22:15 Francesco Pretto
2007-02-21 23:55 ` Alan
2007-02-22 1:01 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-02-22 13:53 ` Alan
2007-02-22 15:22 ` Rolf Offermanns
2007-02-22 22:47 ` Francesco Pretto
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