<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I meant to add, for those that don't know the movie, the gag in Twins is that Arnold was the product of careful bio-engineering, they were trying to create an ideal person, and Danny DeVito's character wasn't planned for, and instead has the 'leftovers' after Arnold was created in the womb.<div><br></div><div>I couldn't find a suitable movie clip to share.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 8, 2025, at 15:57, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">SATA is the Danny DeVito twin to SAS's Arnold Swartzenegger (Movie reference, "Twins") <a href="https://images.app.goo.gl/epXtv2oCDefJY7Vm9">https://images.app.goo.gl/epXtv2oCDefJY7Vm9</a><div><br></div><div>SAS is Serial Attached SCSI - it's right there in the name!</div><div><br></div><div>The value of IDE is (as I always understood it) it used a commodity controller built-into every motherboard to simplify the design/lower the cost of the controller on the individual drive.</div><div><br></div><div>Its primary design goal was reduced cost, performance was secondary, it just needed to be better than MFM/RLL drives...</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 8, 2025, at 15:38, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On 1/8/25 15:35, Mouse via rescue wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As a technical geek, I prefer SCSI too. [...]</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>But, as a sysadmin, I prefer IDE (and, now, SATA) - for disk [...]</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>So what's your feeling about SAS?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm...not sure; I haven't run into it enough. But what little I've</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>picked up about it places it basically on a par with SATA; it's just</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that the error bars on that are huge.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span> ...except that it's SCSI, and thus does not suck. The same cannot be, IMO, said of SATA.</span><br><span></span><br><span> -Dave</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ</span><br><span>New Kensington, PA</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rescue list - http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>