Larry wrote: My $.02. As I agree SCSI has had a reputation for being a more solid enterprise type drive, everyone's mileage varies. We have moved to using all SATA drives in our newer servers. I have to admit most of our databases are smaller than what many on this list have. All our db's are under 500 megs. My reality is this. If a SATA drive does fail, so far only 1 over the last 18 months, it is cheap and easy to replace. I have all my setups raided so we have no lost data. At the same time I have several Hitachi/IBM SCSI drives...
What controller do you use for RAIDing the SATAs? Glen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]