> Thing is, even all SATA is not created equal. Before you decide you can > put PRIMARY disk on SATA, ask about SUSTAINED throughput rates. > > If your data needs to go SOMEWHERE ELSE (like get copied or migrated to > tape) from the SATA disk, think carefully. If you're talking a LOT of > data, think VERY carefully. > > I've worked with some SATA disk that drop to as low as 8MB/second after > you exceed the cache read ahead/flush capacity (and that's on READ I/O, > not even writes!). >
Ouch. I think I can get better than that with an eMachines home computer. I hope that wasn't one of the top tier vendor's storage subsystems. The old addage of you get what you pay for applies to SATA disk as well. ______________________________ John Monahan Consultant Infrastructure Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com
