Hate SATA hard drives

[Mark Kirkwood]

Shannon McMackin wrote:
>
> Then don't use SATA drives.  Good old-fashioned SCSI drives must still 
> be available or the more expensive SAS drives.  Karl, if you chose a 
> system with SATA drives, you must've known it was an inexpensive or 
> cheap alternative to more reliable, better performing drive technologies.
>
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>   

These days SATA drives are actually very well made, and studies tend to 
show little significant difference between them and SCSI: 
(http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder.html).

The SATA motherboard connector however, received criticism for being 
overly flimsy in design at introduction (can't recall the article where 
I read this), and clearly Karl has run into this. I always check that 
the my SATA cables are firmly plugged in and have no other cables etc 
leaning on them.

Cheers

Mark