Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the > difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? On the most basic level I think of SAS as basically the new SCSI, and SATA II as the new PATA. SCSI = smaller, faster SATA II = bigger, slower SAS drives typically have higher quality control on them too. I get the impression that a lot more firmware bugs get out on the SATA drives vs the SAS/FC drives. Though the only time I've ever had to upgrade the firmware on a disk drive was regular U320 SCSI disks from Seagate sold via Dell. nate