Choosing Serial ATA RAID 5 controller for FBSD 4.9

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Fri Feb 27 07:06:07 PST 2004


Hi,

Lanny Baron wrote:

 > For every 1 SCSI disk failure, you will get about 10 ide disk 
failures.
 >
 > The MTBF for SCSI drives is ~ 50% of ide.

I think, it is the other way around.

The MTBF of a SCSI drive is some 1 200 000 h while an IDE drive 
comes with 300 000 h or less.

Erich


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