markw wrote:
I've got an emc 150 at work with SATA drives, no issues. I'm also running supermicro chassis's with hotswap sata drives without issue.
I generally prefer SATA to SAS also. The cost/performance is way in favor of SATA. Generally if you have to ask you don't need SAS. I have moved all of my stuff over to SATA.
In fact the recent LJ just build a 16TB server using a 3ware card. Make sure if you go Sata, that you get the RAID/Enterprise drives, not the desktop stuff. 500GB is around 120ish right now per drive vs 90 for non-raid. Unless there was a demand for HIGH disk I/O I lean towards
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