15 Aug
2008
15 Aug
'08
1:58 p.m.
Eric J Korpela wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm, good points... I suppose I never really thought of the DB-25 Apple SCSI
(or those bloody SCSI Iomega drives) as being "real SCSI", but maybe that was
a lot of peoples' first exposure to the technology.
The termination issue's always puzzled me, because the rules for how and when
to terminate have seemed so clear. I agree that auto-termination was one of
those features that never should have happened, though - it does seem prone to
screwing things up.
Given that IDE was more
accessible due to it being cheaper technology, I'm surprised that it too
didn't gain a reputation for requiring goat sacrifices and the like that
SCSI did. I suppose cost wins out over common sense at times...
I'll give some additional reasons...
[snip] I'm totally off tape. Our experience with DLT is
that the drives
don't last, transfer rates are too slow, and the media are too
unreliable and too expensive.
I've never had any issues to be honest. I've heard lots of bad things about
the DLT-8000 technology, though.
it's too expensive when you can get 750GB SATA
drives for $150.
I keep waiting for a hard disk vendor to come out with a 'backup drive' which
has an unloadable head assembly and the platter stack in a removable pack,
accessible through the front of the machine - just like the olden days :-)
cheers
Jules