On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>>
>> A quick look around doesn't show any SAS drives over 300GB. So I
>> guess it depends on what you value more.
>
> A quick look at the Hitachi data sheets also shows that the SAS drives have
> one order of magnitude higher error rate. SATA is 1 in 10^15 and SAS is 1
> in 10^16.
Presumably you mean one order of magnitude _lower_ error rate.
> That's one of the reasons why the capacities aren't higher. More bits are
> dedicated to error correction.
Twice as many bits for error correction? As implied by maximum capacity ratio.
carl
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