What is a SATA drive? We are looking for a new backup server and Dell spec'd one out with SATA drives and of course a sales guy from another company says oh you don't want that those drives won't hold up long. Can anybody clarifiy for me?
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i agree Sata drives are best for home, although we have several servers here running them in RAID5 work a treat :)
SATA HDD basically just have a different connection to IDE or SCSI, with a few different performance issues :)
depends what kind of server you want them on...if its an actiev directory server or something then dont use them, but an archive server or something they would be good for
I've had 3 customers who lost a drive from thier array and ended up loing the entire thing. It may be more of a RAID controller issue that anything else but the common denomnator was that all 3 of them were SATA RAID.
I just love having to tell a customer that their server is dead and since they have no good backup within the past 6 months I can't really do anything for them. that's a horrible position to be in.
This is for a backup server. It will be running Windows Storage server with about 4 terabyte of space to do backup to disk and then pump out to tape after. This server won't be used for anything else but backups but if sata is not dependable I need to know.
ive never had trouble with sata but each to their own i guess! 4TB of SCSI space is going to kill you on cost!!! compared to 4TB of SATA space which is relatively cheap!
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SATA Drives