[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> > Meanwhile, I have some older SCSI SCA-80pin drives in Compaq Servers
> > (IBM Mechanisms) that have been spinning forever.
> >
> Those would be horribly slow compared to even a modern SATA drive and
> use 3 times the electricity for a small amount of space.

Horsecrap.  Those are almost certainly 15krpm drives, with reasonably
sized caches.  And with native TCQ, their throughput is likely quite a bit
hither than current consumer SATA, too.

And depending on how old "older" is?  Not so much on the
power consumption, either.
 
> Well 2TB drives can be had for under $80 USA so buy in pairs of 2 and
> raid 1 each drive if you are that worried about loosing data. If not
> it costs about $7 to ship out a drive. I have only once RMAd a RMA'd
> drive in the > 100 drives I have sent back over the years (that
> happened last week) so you probably will not need to use the warranty
> on a drive more than 1 time.

It certainly depends on what you're optimizing for, yes.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra