On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Ummm, no. SATA and SAS seek times are not even in the same universe. They >> most definitely do not use the same mechanics inside. Whoever told you that >> rubbish is an outright liar. > > It is extremely unlikely that two drives from the same manufacturer and with > the > same RPM differ in seek times if you compare a SAS variant with a SATA > variant.
I did find a manufacturer (Seagate) which does offer a SAS variant of what is normally a SATA drive. Is this the specific product you are talking about? The interface itself is perhaps not all that important but drive vendors have traditionally selected that "SCSI" based products are based on high performance hardware with a focus on reliability while "ATA" based products are based on low or medium performance hardware with a focus on cost. There is very little overlap between these distinct product lines. It is rare to find similarity between the specification sheets. It is quite rare to find similar rotation rates or seek times. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
