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. -- Bowie