[Info-vax] Question about IDE disks

[Michael Moroney]

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:

>I've had IDE disks running almost continuously for several years.  While
>failure is possible it is not very common.  IDE is only the interface 
>electronics.  I think that virtually all disks have the same sort of 
>enclosure, the same sort of platters, the same sort of heads.  What 
>differentiates them is: capacity, performance, reliability, and 
>interface with the system.

That is true, however it should be pointed out that some drives were made
with lower quality HDAs, and these were almost exclusively IDE for cheap
home PCs.  This is why some people say IDE drives are lower qulaity, it's
really just the low quality HDAs weren't ever made into SCSI or whatever
drives.