On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: >>Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? > > SAS is more enterprise geared, relating to speed and MTBU (probably a load of crap on that point) > and SATA is cheaper and does not perform as well, supposedly less reliable to. There was a thread about the MTBF of various types of drives, linking to articles about the experiences of Google.com, here in this mailing list, probably 1 or 2 years ago. As I recall, they found the MTBF between different types of drives to be about the same? > > SAS usually only come in higher spindle speeds and the 2.5" variety actually only have 300 Gb ratings.