Curt Mills wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Matt wrote:
What is the cheapest SATA hardware raid card I can get at newegg.com? Seems like most turn out not to be true hardware raid that I have found and will not run on CentOS 4.8 without a great deal of grief.
Not a direct answer to your question, but be careful of SATA drives.
As I understand it SAS drives (Serially Attached SCSI) are designed to handle server duty (multiple processes stepping the head 24/7), whereas SATA drives (Serially attached ATA) are not. SATA drives if used in servers will fail prematurely. They're great/cheap for home use though.
I've also heard that SATA-2 drives are more like SAS or SCSI drives in this respect, as in they're designed for server duty.
I probably heard the above on this very list in the past.
Can someone confirm or deny? Making me look like a fool is ok, I'm used to it. ;-)
We use SATA in a number of Production Systems. If its server class hardware I haven't seen issues. So I wouldn't treat this as a big concern.