[CentOS] SATA vs. SAS

Wed Aug 22 13:56:42 UTC 2007
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

Peter Arremann wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, data reliability is another issue. We have tons of
> sata based disk arrays and have had no issues yet (because our systems
> are all on UPS and multiple circuits) but if you don't have
> infrastructure like that, you are more likely to lose data on a sata
> based system... 

Why do you say that SATA arrays are less reliable?  I have used both
SATA and SCSI raid and have had drive failures on both.  Recovery from
the failures seems to be more a matter of the raid implementation than
the interface type.

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Bowie