[tech] A question of File System

[David Luyer]

> We aren't any more. But price was the original motivation. Theres no
> reason why an IDE disk should be less reliable - the mechanics can be
> identical. The worst that should happen is possibly lower performance.

Typically they'll use crappy encoding formats on IDE disks.  The same
encoding formats used to be used on IDE and Seagate Medalist SCSI.
Neither
lasted more than a day or two in a news server...

The hardware encoding on a HDD matters a lot more than the interface,
but
fortunately they usually put the good ones together :-)

David.