On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:47:55 -0800, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.
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> Has anybody seen any of the big boys (Sun, HP, Dell, IBM, etc.)
> providing an Opteron machine which uses Serial ATA?
>
> All of the systems I have seen seem to be SCSI-based. As these are
> going to be compute servers that need large scratch spaces, SCSI
> makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I'd really like to get
> Serial-ATA instead and be able to buy a 200-300GB scratch drive
> rather than a "measly" 137GB drive.
Well, if Dell made an Opteron box nowadays, it would probably have
Serial ATA. My small Dell desktop "Server" with 2.8GHz P4 has two
SATA ports.
Apparently about a year ago Dell inadvertently released details of an
Opteron box, as if they were about to sell it to the public. It
quickly disappeared from their web site etc. Probably you know this
already.
Can't you put a SATA controller card into some otherwise SCSI box? Or
do you need from-factory fully compatible hardware for service and
maintenance reasons?
carl
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