[olug] SATA Drives

[Craig Wolf]

As you have seen, SCSI for High-Availability, High-Usage applications. 
We have about 20 TB of SATA storage and adding about another 40 TB over
the next school year for Video storage.  SCSI still on our front-line
servers but the cost per GB of SATA and the ability to do RAID 50 with a
hot spare for less than SCSI makes it much more appealing.

SATA got a bad rap early for reliability but they have since gotten
that under control.  That from my HP rep as well as other info gleaned
from websites...Run with SATA if you can.  I have had good luck with it
so far (knock on wood).

Craig Wolf
Linux Server Support
Backup Administrator
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-715-6283


>>> "Curtis LaMasters" <curtislamasters at gmail.com> 8/9/2007 >>>
Some of they guy's in my company complain that SATA drives are
worthless and
should NEVER be installed in a server platform.  I just wanted to know
your
take on the situation.  My personal belief is match the server specs to
it's
requirements.  Enough said.

-- 
Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com 
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