Quoting "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
I'm pretty sure that HP is about to come out with versions of their 1U opteron box with SATA.
You could always get white box with Tyan boards, or just 3ware cards for SATA. We've gotten some 2Us with 3wares for hw raid. My new server at home has a Tyan board with SATA on it.. but I went nuts and got a 3ware card and 4x200Gig sata disks that I raid-1'd. Got all my email, web stuff, family email, photos, etc.. so I'm protecting that stuff. :D
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