However, the latest C7 server I built, ran into problems with them on on a Intel C236 board (SuperMicro X11SSH) with tons of "ata bus error write fpdma queued". Googling on it threw up old suggestions to limit SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps using libata.force boot options and/or noncq. Lowering the link speed helped to reduce the frequency of the errors (from not getting a smartctl output to getting a complete listing within 2 tries).
I discovered, amidst great initial pain, that most, if not all, of the problems I had with SATA disks were caused by SATA cables and not by the disks themselves. Intermittent problems, such as disks randomly not showing up in RAID groups, were solved when I replaced the cables with proper ones. Some of the bad cables even came from well known names.
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