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- From: mogal@deadhead.asd.sgi.com (Joshua Mogal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: SMD vs. SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.235114.4321@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 23:51:14 GMT
- References: <1349@ceylon.gte.com>
- Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1349@ceylon.gte.com>, seb3@harvey.gte.com (Steve Belczyk) writes:
- |> Hi!
- |>
- |> For the last four months we have been having hardware problems with
- |> the four SMD drives on our 4D/380S. The drives, controller, and cables
- |> have been replaced, but the problems keep coming back.
- |>
- |> Field Service has offered to replace the four SMD drives with four SCSI
- |> drives of the same size. We are concerned about the performance of the
- |> SCSI drives. Can we expect to get the same speeds from the SCSI drives
- |> that we get from the SMD drives? Can we expect the SCSI drives to be
- |> more reliable?
- |>
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- The SCSI drives shipped by SGI now are far more reliable than the old SMD drives
- and in fact offer much BETTER performance than was possible with SMD. The SCSI
- spec has advanced rapidly while SMD stood still. Go for the SCSIs.
-
- Joshua Mogal
- Product Manager
- Silicon Graphics
- Advanced Graphics Division
- |> Thank you very much.
- |>
- |> - steve belczyk seb3@gte.com
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