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.